August 5, 2025 • 41 mins
This is the full show for August 4, 2025. We ask the American Mamas if spouses should have access to one another's social media. We Dig Deep into why the Democrats in the Texas Legislature have fled to Illinois and New York. Plus, American Eagle didn't back down when the woke mob came for them for their ad campaign featuring Sidney Sweeney, and that's a Bright Spot. And we finish off with some words of wisdom about fitness that will make you say, "Whoa!"
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Speaker 5 (01:03):
I mean, here you have a sitting member of Congress,
Jasmine Crockett, right, and she calls the President of the
United States a piece of bibe excrement literally at this
rally that she was at. And look, you know, while
you have heated political rhetoric, I mean that that certainly
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has been a staple of modern discourse for a sitting congresswoman,
someone sworn to uphold the dignity of the office. And
I know a lot of folks might say, what dignity,
what decorum is there? I mean this kind of this
is a classless act. This is a classless insult and
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is fundamentally unbecoming because beyond the course of language, you
know she's wrong, I mean, besides the fact that she's vulgar,
I mean the claim that Trump would not be able
to get away with this. I tell you what, Let's
play the clip.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Or let's not play the clip.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
No, no, no, We're not going to play that part of
the clib But take a listen. This is this is.
She has just called the President of the United States
a piece of excrement, and the crowd's going wild. Take
a listen. Yes, yes he is, he is. His is.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
But in a functioning democracy, he still would not be
able to get away with this. But he's been able
to get away with this because the House Republicans are complicit.
He's been able to get away with this because Senate
Republicans are complicit.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
What in the world does she think of democracy? Is
the Republicans that are in the House of Representatives were
elected to those positions by the people through a democratic process.
The Senators who are in those positions were elected to
the Senate by the people in a democratic process. We
have a democratic republic. They are are representatives they are
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representing us in those offices because they were elected to
be in those seats by a democratic process. What does
she think is not a functioning democracy that the people
who were elected to office were actually sitting in the
office doing the job they were elected to do. How
is that not a functioning democracy?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well, then she went on to say that the United
States Supreme Court had no ethics whatsoever. Take listen pertly.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
The courts, especially the Supreme Court, is complicit. And so
I think one of the places that we have to
start is we are absolutely they are the highest court
in the lands and they have no ethics guard rails.
Now you go down to the lower courts and they do.
How much does that make Well, we know that they're
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taking money we have.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
That's not true. That's not true.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Did you hear what she's saying that the Supreme Court
is taking money? First of all, the judges, the United
States Supreme Court justices, Yeah, they are subject to the
same canons of ethics.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
As everybody else. And actually, and I know this because
my grandfather did it. My grandfather helped write the code
of Ethics for the American Bar Association back in the
late nineteen sixties. Early nineteen seventies. Do you know who
helped him write that? The Supreme Court justices the ethics
the code of ethics for the entire American Bar Association
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were written by my grandfather with Supreme Court justices sitting
in his living room. That's how that happened. So for
her to say that the Supreme Court justices don't know
not obviously it wasn't the Supreme Court justices. It was
the Supreme Court justices back then. But for her to
be saying that they have no ethics, pot kettle. You
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just called the president an expltive, and you're accusing someone
else of not having any ethics.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Come on now, no, it makes absolutely no sense. And
I mean then to charge that the Supreme Court is
complicit because.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Because they're following the Constitution, because they're reading the words
in the Constitution, goes this is what those words mean
when you apply those words to this situation, this is
what the outcome should be. That means they're complicit in
breaking democracy somehow.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
But see, here's the other part. You know members of Congress, Yes,
they represent millions of people, right, No.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
They represent one hundred thousands of people.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
No, I mean collectively collectively, Yes, collectively.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Three hundred and thirty three hundred and thirty five million people.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
And it's not just a political party that they represent,
that their words carry weight, it sets the tone for
a national dialogue. And resorting to vulgar name calling, I mean,
you're undermining the very principles of respect and debate that
form the backbone of the very democracy that she is
complaining that President Trump and Republicans in the House and
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the Senate and on the Supreme Court apparently destroying.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
All right, but I can't believe I'm having to do this.
But to be fair to Jasmine Crockett, she is only
following the example of the elders in her party. She
is simply following the example of Maxine Waters. She is
simply following. Remember Maxine Waters said, if you see a
Republican out in public, you get in their face and
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you make sure they aren't welcome. They know they aren't
welcome anywhere around here. That was Maxine Waters, And that
wasn't recently. That was almost ten years ago. Is eight
years ago?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
All right?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
How about Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, who
on national television at the end of the State of
the Union address that Donald Trump gave in his first term.
She stands up and rips the State of the Union
address in half. Talk about a lack of decorum, talk
about behavior that goes beyond acceptable norms. Jasmine Crockett is
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simply following the example of all of the leaders in
her party. And what's more is, especially with social media days,
she has learned the wrong lesson. The lesson she's learned
is if you want to get noticed, you have to
be outrageous. That's the lesson she's learned. And that's all
she's doing because the people on the left will reward
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her for this bad behavior.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Okay, but didn't she have any ethics of her own?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Well, those are her ethics because on social media.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
But she should embody higher standards. Insults and unfounded conspiracy theories,
I mean, undermine the credibility of public office. Yes, I
know there might be some folks out there. Oh remember
when President Trump questioned Obama's birth certificate.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Right? And Donald Trump certainly can have a potty mouth
on himself. He used the F bomb a while back
and that got people, you know, Twitter, paidd. But the
point here is that Jasmine Crockett's her ethics are if
you want to get noticed, you have to do things
that are outrageous. Doing the right thing in the right way,
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for the right reason doesn't get you likes. And that's
that's her platform. Now social media raise her platform by
being the biggest, loudest, meanest person that she can possibly be.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
So she creates a one minute Facebook reel for example, right,
and she goes out there and she says the Supreme
Court is taking money and that it lacks any ethics
guard reels, which is without without any context in this
one minute video or any or nuance, right well, or
any evidence. And now you've got young people, young malleable,
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young people who hear that, Oh, you know, everybody's corrupt.
I mean the Republicans are corrupt in Congress and and
in the Supreme Court. I mean they take money.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And this congress person.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
It's the rich that are controlling the entire country.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
This congress person must know what she's talking about, because
after all, she dropped an S bomb. That must mean
that she's really intense.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Oh she's keeping it real.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
No, this is.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Unreal's keeping it unreal. This is how you break.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
A republic by this kind of behavior from people who
should know better.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
She should know better. I should That's debatable.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
She says she went to college and she's really really smart.
If that's the case, she should know better.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
You know, a college degree doesn't really indicate how smart
you are.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Let's get to the top of things. You need no before tomorrow,
pers thing you need no before tomorrow. For the third
month in a row, no illegal aliens were allowed to
cross into the country. The Trump administration announced the official
numbers for July twenty four thousand, six hundred and thirty
people were caught trying to sneak into the country. They
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were encountered by border patrol nation wide, with only four thousand,
five hundred and ninety eight at the Southwest border. That's
fewer apprehensions at the Southwest border in the entire month
of July than the daily average during the Biden administration.
The same time, seventy eight one thousand people have applied
to become ice officers in the past week. That means
more people are signing up to enforce the law at
the border than are currently attempting to break the law
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at the border.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
You know, how you explain this if you're on the left,
how people don't want to come to the United States
anymore because of Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
No, we don't need new laws. We just need to
enforce the laws we have.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
And yes, I'm saying that tongue in chee.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Second thing you needed from wal Cambodia became the third
nation this year to nominate President Donald Trump for a
Nobel Peace Prize. Two weeks ago, Trump stopped a war
between Cambodi and Thailand with two phone calls and tariff threats.
Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister son At Chanthal gave an interview
to The Wall Street Journal, saying he should get the
Nobel not only for his work on Cambodia, but also elsewhere.
We acknowledge his great efforts for peace. Both Israel and
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Pakistan have already nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize
this year. He was nominated for the Peace Prize multiple
times during his first administration, but was not awarded the
prize back then.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Okay, you and I disagree on this. I say he's
getting the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I say he should get it. I'm just not convinced
you have it. I am certain he's getting it. You
have higher failed in the Nobel Committee than I do.
And the third thing you need to before tomorrow. South
Carolina Congressman Nancy Base is running for governor. The first
woman graduate of the Citadel is joining a crowded race
for the Republican primary. South Carolina is Lieutenant Governor Pamela
Yvette and Attorney General Allan Wilson are already in the running,
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so is Congressman Ralph Norman and State Senator Josh Kembrell.
In her announcement, Representative May said South Carolina needs a
governor who will drag the truth into the sunlight and
flip the tables if that's what it takes. I've walked
into firestorms and I've come out swinging.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Well.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
You know, South Carolina, it's already doing so well on
so many measures.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, it's definitely one of those states that's growing faster
than most of the rest of the country. And they
are doing and it's because they are they are living
by conservative principles.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
They better elect a conservative who believes those principles.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
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Speaker 5 (12:46):
Sometimes you just can't win, and I'm fairly sure can
win well in some instances. I think there are some
instances where, especially like President Trump, I know he says,
you know, we're gonna get tired of winning. And he
certainly is true when he says that, because we have
been winning quite a bit.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I'm not getting we need to pace ourselves and just
keep going, keep the winning coming.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
But where I'm going with this is, you know, when
he's not when he's not decisive, you know, a decisive enough.
You know, some folks say, oh he's weak, you know,
or when he's too decisive. They call him a dictator.
You know, if he pauses and he reads the room, well,
then you know, some folks say, oh, he's a sellout.
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I mean, it's a no win game for President Trump
sometimes because he's trying to win. He's trying to win
the proverbial war and not just score political points. I mean,
he's got the long game in mind, like, for example,
Kim Jong un. Okay, remember he sat down with Kim
Jong un. Yeah, and the folks on the right from
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our own party said, how could you sit down with
a tyrant? But but what did Trump accomplish from that?
He reduced the North Korean threat? He brought it. He
brought the North Korean Kim Jong Un to the negotiating table,
not with missiles, but with diplomacy, muscle diplomacy.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Right.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
So you know, some folks hated him for talking to
a dictator. Some folks hated him for not bombing one. Right,
But at the same time, in North Korea there's been
no more nuclear testing since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
But it just all reminds me of that quote by
John Lydgate. You can please some of the people all
the time, you can please all the people some of
the time. But you can't please all the people all
the time. There's some people, and frankly, there's some people
you can't ever please, and so don't try that. That's
not your job. Your job is not to please all
of the people. Your job is not to please even
some of the people because their ideas are completely wrong.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
You see, there was a time also with Speaker Mike Johnson. Yeah,
there were some folks that said, oh, you know, he's abandoned,
he's betrayed, he's compromised, exactly because he understood the math.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
He knew he had one vote.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
He was well, he was governing. He was governing with
the slimmest Republican majority in nearly a century.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
No, no, he was Republican. He was governing these House
of Representatives with the smallest majority any speaker of the House.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
No, no, not the small in over one hundred years, I
think since nineteen thirty one, but not ever in history.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
But look, it was not.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
A great deal, not a good one. But at the
same time, you've got to look at would you rather
make a point or would you rather make a difference.
So when you say that someone's not conservative enough, you
got to keep that in mind.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
We got a question for American mama's. Dear mama's, do
you think your spouse should have access to your social
media account?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Well, let's ask our American mamas.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Is now our American mam was Terry Nedville and Kimberly Burlison. Okay,
y'all both have social media. I don't think Kevin does.
I don't think. I don't think I've seen Mike does
he have social media?
Speaker 7 (16:12):
He does, but he's mostly a gamer on his phone.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Games, all right, so he's not really involved. No, no,
all right, So do they have access to your social
medi because both of y'all are very active on social media?
Speaker 7 (16:25):
They he could. I don't care. He knows my passwords, okay,
you know, and sometimes he's gotten in my phone because
he's looking for something and it doesn't bother me. I'm
sure you probably do feel the same way.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Yeah, I don't mind at all. I'm just thinking I
don't remember my password. I had to change it a
couple of times. So if i'm out, if I get
out of Facebook somehow, I don't remember.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
You're excited if he can get into it, Yeah, if he.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Can figure it out, figure it out. But he'll say,
I'll show him like, you know, look at this, at
this there's a time here that I was like, just
get just get your I'm telling you you'll have fun'llah yeah.
He's like, that's I'm not interested at all. If I
need to know something, I'll ask you. And so, yeah,
I would have zero problem with him looking at my Facebook.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Have y'all seen that TikToker? So this guy he walks
in malls or he's at like State Bears or whatever,
and he stops couples and he asks that they're a couple,
and then he says, how long have you been together? Yes,
he've seen that, and so I've seen it where they've
been together for two years but also married couples like
twenty five years. And he'll say, do y'all trust each other?
And they'll like, oh yeah, absolutely absolutely. He goes, would
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you give me your phone so I can see do
that test? And you always in the ones he shows,
there's one that just has that look on their face
like oh gosh, so and always there's one like oh yeah,
here you go. So he looks at their phones and
he starts whatever he does. He starts scrolling through things
like the apps like apps. He'll go through apps and
he'll say who is Travis and hell and the husband
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will say what.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
So you see.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Where things fall apart right in front of your eyes
on these little tiktoks. And I have been shocked at
the number of people that are not doing the right thing,
that are talking to other people find their person's.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Backs, wow, and or they'll be on that on a
dating app that's for cheaters, and that is devastating to
the person that's like you know, in fact, some of
them have broken up at that at that moment.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Moment the spot.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I would think if you had a dating app for
cheaters on your phone, yeah, that would be it.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
I think one of the signs, and people have talked
about this if you have your cell phone and your
spouse and you go to look at their phone and
they like act weird, like what are you looking?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
What do you want?
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Why do you want my phone? That's a red flag.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
You know.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
If if my husband wanted to look at my phone,
he can look at it anytime. There's my phone, open it,
do whatever.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Kevin and my kids use my phone all the time.
They'll grab it to get photos and stuff all the time.
It's like the family phone, you know.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Actually, just the other night, Wendy picked up my phone
and all of a sudden, a group meet text comes in,
and she goes, wait, you're on Group me, and I go, actually,
it's the Alter Ministry group up at church. They're asking
for prayers for people, and so I have I don't
like Group me, but I'm on that because of that,
And sure enough comes the next thing comes in. Would
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you pray for this guy? He's got the end? And
she's like, oh, no, that's fine. But I was like,
that's like an app she didn't know I had. Yeah,
but she had my phone. I don't care. Yeah, you know.
All right, So let me ask another question, because Wendy
and I about the time that she saw the group meet,
think come up. We had this other conversation about bank accounts,
about having separate bank accounts. Do you think couples should
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have separate bank account I mean, if they should be
able to have access to everything on their phone, does
that include the bank account.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
We always had a separate bank account for many years
while I worked, and then when I stopped working, we
had a joint checking account. We deal with money very differently.
And it is not easy. I'm freer with money, uh huh,
you know, with sending it to the kids if they
need something, and he is tight. Yeah, and so this
is interesting. This just happened this week. So Shane was
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texting me Mom, I need some money. Can you send
me some money? And she He's like, I'm scared. I
don't want to ask dad. I don't want doubt, you know,
So I'm texting her, Yes, I'm just gonna send you
some money. Just don't say anything. The only time in
my entire marriage that Mike has wanted to she had
sent me pictures and said, oh, Shane sent me the
cutest pictures. He goes, let me see. I was like,
oh gosh. So I handed my phone and he goes,
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can I read the messages? And I went sure, here
we go, Here we go. And he reads the messages
and he goes, are you kidding me? How much did
you send her?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
My god? The one time? The one time.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Yeah, that is hilariously.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
So if that had happened in them all with the
guy asked you, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
What you'd be worried about.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Just don't show them. The one with my kids. Yeah,
we're her husband's so freaking tight. I don't know, you know,
because we've we've had a joint ever since. But I mean,
you might as well just say it's Kevin's because I'd say, Hey,
I'm gonna I would like to buy a new rug?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Is that okay with you? You know?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
That's how it is, you know, for Wendy and Night,
it's always We've always had a checking account. When we
were first married, she was the one who manders saw
the money, and then now I'm the one who manages
all the money. And I don't remember why that switched
or when that switch, but it definitely switched. But we've
always had a joint checking account, but we've always discussed
big purchases together, so we've always had the same mindset
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about money. So that's been a little bit easier for us.
But we've had several friends who had separate checking accounts
and they ended up with separate last names.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Wow, well, are are we ended it?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Go ahead? Real quick?
Speaker 6 (21:28):
I was just gonna I don't even know what I
was gonna say.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Well, then if you're like to ask our American Mama's
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Speaker 5 (22:32):
You know, we were talking about Jasmine Crockett and how
what she was talking about earlier being complete bonk calling
there not saying Republicans are splicited and destroying democracy because
they're doing what the people voted for them to do,
and then calling the president you know, a piece of excrement.
But apparently what she may be previewing for you is
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the Democrat party plan, because there was a donor event
and a set of slides that were shown to these
donors at this donor event, and apparently the Democrats are
raising tens of millions of dollars for social media campaigns.
In other words, they're trying to hire and when we're
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talking about one hundred and ten million dollars.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Wow for social media campaign.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
For content creators. Oh okay, all right, and that's according
to these slides that were leaked from a donor event. Okay,
and this investment is aimed at shaping and I quote
shaping narratives. How about lying, I mean shaping narratives. You
know the Democrats, they're so artful with their words. I mean,
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of course they are the party of projection, but shaping narratives.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Well, but remember Sam Adams said, how easily the tools
of a tyrant change the meaning of plain words. But
see what that's what Democrats do all the time. Instead
of saying, yeah, we want to we want to tell
the political lies that we want to tell, they go,
we want to shape the narrative. No, you want to
distort the truth.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Let's see what Congressman Crockett, what she was saying earlier.
We were talking about how you know the Republicans in
Congress are complicit with the destruction of the democracy by
the president. It's not some accidental byproduct what she's spewing
you think'sign It is an intentional, well funded strategy that
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is baked into a broader political playbook.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
It's not going to work because the people know who
they voted for. The majority of people voted for Republicans
to do the things that the Republicans are actually doing
in Congress. So if you're trying to convince the people
who voted for Republicans that Republicans are somehow complicit in
destroying democracy when they do what they were voted in
to do, that's a stupid strategy. It's not going to work.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
See. That's why it is important for shows like American
Ground Radio and listeners like you. I mean, you are
more critical than ever before because you've got this media
landscape that is about to be saturated with millions, tens
of millions of dollars just live of political lies. All right,
(25:14):
we got to call it out. We got to call
the mistruths out. We've got a demand accountability we do.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
We do that every day. We do that every day.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
What do I understand our listeners do as well. I'm
just saying their role is even more important.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
For example, we're digging deep, going down, down, down. So
fifty six Democrats from the Texas State Legislature have fled
to Illinois and New York Why because they didn't want
to allow Republicans to move forward in Texas with a
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special session of the legislature. All right, so what will
this special session do. They've got a variety of issues
that the Democrats don't want to vote on. Flood relief.
Remember they had that big, bad flood in parts of
Texas earlier this year. More than one hundred people died
in the floodsmember those Well, there's flood relief in this package.
Democrats want to vote on that. Abortion Texas is already
one of the strongest pro life states. They don't want
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to vote on that. And reducing taxes. They didn't want
to reduce taxes for Texans and the Democrats don't want
to vote on that. But the big one is redistricting.
The Republicans in the state legislature one to end racial
jerrymandering in the state, and by doing so, they planned
to give Republicans five more seats in Congress. Now Democrats
are opposed to this. So it's ironic that they held
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their press conference in Illinois, which is one of the
most jerrymandered states in the country.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Okay, but wait a minute, this isn't the first time
Texas Democrats have pulled this stunt leaving the state twenty
twenty one, didn't they fla twenty twenty three? Well, I
thought it was twenty twenty they Yeah, they started out
the one that they went to Washington, d C.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Yeah, yeah, they did do that in two o'clock voting
restriction legislation.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
In twenty twenty three, they went to New Mexico to
try and block some other voter ID stuff it. But
back go back to two thousand and what was the
two thousand and one they went to Oklahoma?
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Okay, but this is so childish.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I guess it was in two thousand and three they
went to Oklahoma to stop readis seriously, I mean, this
is absolutely a juvenile But California's Governor Gavin Newsom, he
loves this. He posts online saying, this is what fighting
for our democracy looks like.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Playing hide and seek.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah, violating state laws so that you can stop the
democratic process from moving forward is now quote fighting for
our democracy. You see how we're not shaped that narrative? Yeah, yeah,
you shape that narrative.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
I would substitute the word abdicates, Yeah, because I think
flee for the word fighting. Yeah, because I think fleeing
the state in order to avoid tough votes. Yes, abdicates
your responsibilities.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
You know who agrees with you. The governor of the
state of Texas, Greg Abbott, wrote, Democrats hatched a deliberate
plan not to show up for work for the specific
purpose of abdicating the duties of their office and thwarting
the chambers business. He actually uses the same word to you.
He said, that amounts to an abandonment or forfeiture of
an elected state office. When the governor calls a special session,
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our constitution provides that the legislature shall meet. It's not optional,
it's a duty.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
No, there's not a caveat that says, well, if it
doesn't go your way, just run away, right install the
process rather than engaging in the hard work of legislative compromise.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
And according to an official opinion from the Texas Attorney General,
which does carry the weight of law in Texas, any
lawmaker who intentionally does not show up for a legislative
session may be determined to have abandoned their post and
can have their seat vacated and replaced with a special election.
So it's possible the Republicans are about to pick up
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fifty seats in the state House over the next few
days because the Democrats have abandoned their seats. Now it's
not just a violation of the rules of the Texas legislature.
What the Democrats are doing maybe felonies. Here is Governor
Greg Abbott talking on Fox News over the weekend.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
So very simply, it would be bribery if any lawmaker
took money to perform or to refuse to perform and
act in the legislature. And the reports are these legislators
have been both. They sought money and they offered money
to skip the vote, to leave the legislature to take
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a legislative act. That would be bribery. And so the
facts will have to come out. But I think, based
upon comments made by legislators themselves, they face a possibility
facing bribery charges, which is a second degree felony in
the state of Texas.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
And look, let me add to that, if Republicans had
pulled this stunt, Oh yeah, CNN would have called it
an insurrection. Yeah, MSNBC would demand mass resignations. The New
York Times editorial board would probably cry about it. Know
that this is the end of democracy. But when Democrats
do it. Oh, it's brave, it's defending democracy.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
You have Gavin Newsom tweeting this is how you fight
for the democracy. You've got JB. Pritzker in Illinois saying, yeah,
we're gonna house these people as long as they possibly
want to stay, you know this, And then you've got
Kathy Hokel up in New York saying yep, we're we are.
And by the way, Kathy Hokel now has a pattern
of protecting people in the state of New York who
are violating state laws in Texas. She's doing it now
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with the state legislature. She's protecting that doctor, but she's
also protected that abortion doctor who has who has violated
Texas state law allegedly by prescribing abortion pills into Texas,
which goes against the Texas's abortion bands. And Kathy Hokel
thinks her job is to help people violate the laws
of the state of Texas.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
You know, you know what these same democrats that are
doing these press conferences from what in Albany, New York
or Chicago wherever they are, you know, crying about how
Texas is broken. Well, if it's so broken, why don't
you come back and fix it. Why don't you grow up?
Why don't you take your seat? Why don't you do
the job you were elected to do.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
If Texas is broken, why do they set record numbers
of jobs every single month? Why do they have more
people moving to the state of Texas than anywhere else
with the exception of Florida on some months, Texas ain't broken.
Texas is leading the nation and you're running away from
a winner because you don't like losing.
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Speaker 5 (32:13):
Stephen Parker, Lewis sar So a four million dollar incentive bonus.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Well, that's a big incentive. That is a big big
I accept, Lewis, thank you for offering me a four
million dollars incentive bonus. I accept right here on the air,
this of our listeners.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Yes, I understand. But this was a deal that was
extended to Michael donnollan, one of Joe Biden's longest serving cronies.
This is a guy who's been in Biden's back pocket
since disco was a thing. And he told investigators, you know,
because a lot of these folks close to Biden, they've
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been taking the fifth. Well a lot of them are
talking right now, are they. Well, yeah, because a lot
of them have been taking the fifth. They have but
three in a row. So he says that he would
have pocketed eight million dollars if Biden had won reelection
in twenty twenty four. And for what whoa for loyalty,
for silence, for services rendered, maybe just showing up with
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pom poms and being the hype man for a president
who can't remember what state he's in. I mean, this
is outrageous, and yet somehow this isn't even shocking anymore.
This is how business is done, or was done in
Biden world. I mean, you don't get thanked with a
pat on the back or a framed photo. You get
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handed a fat paycheck for sticking around, okay, whispering into
Joe's ears.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Eight million dollars is a ton of money just for
what did Donaldan do to what? God only knows. Let
me ask another question here, is eight million dollars enough
incentive to encourage someone to violate the law when it
comes to voting laws? Well know, I'm just saying, I mean,
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that's a lot of money. I mean, I get wait
if I get eight million, or what if how many.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Thousand dollars would be enough for how many mail in
ballots do.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I have to do to get that eight million? See
that that's a problem. That's a real problem.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
But see every I mean you you do have to
wonder what what was he doing for that?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Right?
Speaker 5 (34:23):
I mean, I mean, so he got his regular salary
I guess as part of the campaign A four million?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Yes, and then which is a lot of money if.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
He won, If Biden won reelection, he'd get another four million.
So that is incentive enough to I mean, you do
you are working with a very difficult candidate. Yeah, I
mean that it's it's a tough job to try to
sell that to the American people. But at the same.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Time, that's, my gosh, that kind of money. Yeah, that
that's kind of corruption type money. Let's get to a
brid spot.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
I'm doing all right, getting good grades.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
So there's been this big brew haha online since the
clothing brand American Eagle released a commercial campaign featuring the
actress Sidney Sweeney. She's wearing blue jeans and the announcer says,
Sidney Sweeney has great genes.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Okay, you know what, hmm, I'm all for it. I
want to talk about this story. But it's very interesting
to me. Yeah, in the span of ten days, yes,
we have talked about this story three times, maybe four
maybe four? All right, I mean that is that is
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a remarkable frequency. And the question is, uh huh. Is
it because you know she is particularly attractive Sidney Sweeney,
It's because this whole thing went viral, or it's because
of all the If no one else had talked about this,
you and I would not have talked about Sidney Sweeney's commercial.
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Or is it because the left has just become enraged
it and it suddenly it becomes kind of fodder.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
That's those on the right. That's why is the left
has gone outrageous. But this is a bright spot about
the reaction to the outrage. So basically, the terminally offended
folks on the left lost their minds. They said this
ad was literally Nazism, it's racist, it's fastest, it's the
master race all over again, just because American Eagle is
making a pun between the word genes g e n
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e s and Jens j E n E s now.
In recent years, when the woke mob has come for
company companies, sometimes those companies have backed down. Yes, sometimes
the time. No, No Hobby lobbed in, back down, Chick
fil aated in, backdown.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
But I'm talking about like Coca Cola, the Delta Airlines.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
There's others that have backed down, not American Eagle, and
I think that's a bright spot. Over the weekend, they
released a statement on their social media platforms quote, Sidney
Sweeney has great genes is and always was about the genes,
her genes, j E and e s. Her story will
continue to celebrate how everyone wears their American Eagle jeens
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with confidence their way. Great genes look good on everyone
and by the way all those genes J E. A. N. S.
I think that's a very good response to the controversy.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
Okay, But at the same time, I mean not to
get philosophical or spiritual here, but we're all created in
the image of God. Absolutely, so our genetic makeup. I mean,
it's in the Bible that He knows every hair on
your head.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
But it's also a truth and objective truth. There are
some people who are just more attractive than other people.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
First of all, genes don't have to be about beauty, no,
I mean, there's it's intelligence, kindness, speed, physical fitness of
the spirituality I mean faith. I mean, there's so many
other qualities that make that are made up obviously by
your genetic makeup.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
Now, at the same time, American Eagle executive Ashley Shapiro
put out a LinkedIn post talking about the ideas behind
the campaign. She said, during a zoom call with Sidney,
we asked the question, how far do you want to
push it without hesitation? She smirked and said, let's push it.
I'm game. Our response challenge accepted. So Sidney Sweeney was
in on this. She wanted to do this commercial. She
thought it was going to be a good campaign. And
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then what's more, it came out over the weekend Sidney
Sweeney is a registered Republican. Okay, but again that's got
more folks upsets, that is, but it's still not stopping
American Eagle and their Great Genes campaign. And that's the
way to respond to the woke mob. But we say
moving on, But we.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Say on this show, there is greatness within each of us. Absolutely,
that's because our genes are great, because we are made
in the image of God.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
That's right. The left doesn't understand it, which is why
you don't bow to the mob. We'll be back.
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Speaker 5 (39:24):
Well, no for incidentals, which basically means if you trash
the place, we've got a way of collecting whatever you destroy,
or if you order no I understand. I mean that's
the other side of that spectrum. But apparently the United
States State Department is set to roll out a similar program.
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They call it a twelve month visa bond. Pilot program,
So some foreign tourists and business travelers will be required
to post a bond basically a depot right for coming
into this country. Maybe it's five thousand, ten thousand, up
to fifteen thousand before you even come into the country.
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And then if you leave and you don't destroy anything
on your way out.
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Speaker 5 (40:14):
The State Department will refund your money all right. Now,
hopefully that that's full refund.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Now that's not just for tourist visas like just coming
in to visit Disney World.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Well no, well some of these are for longer visus.
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Which those are the folks who end up being more
likely to violate their visas and just don't go home.
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So you'll get the full refund. You'll get your money back.
It's not just if you don't destroy anything. I'm being
facetious there, but if you leave the country on time
right and at the designated port right you're supposed to
be leaving the country right, otherwise the bond will be
forfeited to the Treasury.
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Speaker 5 (01:03):
I mean, here you have a sitting member of Congress,
Jasmine Crockett, right, and she calls the President of the
United States a piece of bibe excrement literally at this
rally that she was at. And look, you know, while
you have heated political rhetoric, I mean that that certainly
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has been a staple of modern discourse for a sitting congresswoman,
someone sworn to uphold the dignity of the office. And
I know a lot of folks might say, what dignity,
what decorum is there? I mean this kind of this
is a classless act. This is a classless insult and
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is fundamentally unbecoming because beyond the course of language, you
know she's wrong, I mean, besides the fact that she's vulgar,
I mean the claim that Trump would not be able
to get away with this. I tell you what, Let's
play the clip.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Or let's not play the clip.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
No, no, no, We're not going to play that part of
the clib But take a listen. This is this is.
She has just called the President of the United States
a piece of excrement, and the crowd's going wild. Take
a listen. Yes, yes he is, he is. His is.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
But in a functioning democracy, he still would not be
able to get away with this. But he's been able
to get away with this because the House Republicans are complicit.
He's been able to get away with this because Senate
Republicans are complicit.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
What in the world does she think of democracy? Is
the Republicans that are in the House of Representatives were
elected to those positions by the people through a democratic process.
The Senators who are in those positions were elected to
the Senate by the people in a democratic process. We
have a democratic republic. They are are representatives they are
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representing us in those offices because they were elected to
be in those seats by a democratic process. What does
she think is not a functioning democracy that the people
who were elected to office were actually sitting in the
office doing the job they were elected to do. How
is that not a functioning democracy?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well, then she went on to say that the United
States Supreme Court had no ethics whatsoever. Take listen pertly.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
The courts, especially the Supreme Court, is complicit. And so
I think one of the places that we have to
start is we are absolutely they are the highest court
in the lands and they have no ethics guard rails.
Now you go down to the lower courts and they do.
How much does that make Well, we know that they're
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taking money we have.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
That's not true. That's not true.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Did you hear what she's saying that the Supreme Court
is taking money? First of all, the judges, the United
States Supreme Court justices, Yeah, they are subject to the
same canons of ethics.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
As everybody else. And actually, and I know this because
my grandfather did it. My grandfather helped write the code
of Ethics for the American Bar Association back in the
late nineteen sixties. Early nineteen seventies. Do you know who
helped him write that? The Supreme Court justices the ethics
the code of ethics for the entire American Bar Association
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were written by my grandfather with Supreme Court justices sitting
in his living room. That's how that happened. So for
her to say that the Supreme Court justices don't know
not obviously it wasn't the Supreme Court justices. It was
the Supreme Court justices back then. But for her to
be saying that they have no ethics, pot kettle. You
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just called the president an expltive, and you're accusing someone
else of not having any ethics.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Come on now, no, it makes absolutely no sense. And
I mean then to charge that the Supreme Court is
complicit because.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Because they're following the Constitution, because they're reading the words
in the Constitution, goes this is what those words mean
when you apply those words to this situation, this is
what the outcome should be. That means they're complicit in
breaking democracy somehow.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
But see, here's the other part. You know members of Congress, Yes,
they represent millions of people, right, No.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
They represent one hundred thousands of people.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
No, I mean collectively collectively, Yes, collectively.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Three hundred and thirty three hundred and thirty five million people.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
And it's not just a political party that they represent,
that their words carry weight, it sets the tone for
a national dialogue. And resorting to vulgar name calling, I mean,
you're undermining the very principles of respect and debate that
form the backbone of the very democracy that she is
complaining that President Trump and Republicans in the House and
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the Senate and on the Supreme Court apparently destroying.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
All right, but I can't believe I'm having to do this.
But to be fair to Jasmine Crockett, she is only
following the example of the elders in her party. She
is simply following the example of Maxine Waters. She is
simply following. Remember Maxine Waters said, if you see a
Republican out in public, you get in their face and
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you make sure they aren't welcome. They know they aren't
welcome anywhere around here. That was Maxine Waters, And that
wasn't recently. That was almost ten years ago. Is eight
years ago?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
All right?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
How about Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, who
on national television at the end of the State of
the Union address that Donald Trump gave in his first term.
She stands up and rips the State of the Union
address in half. Talk about a lack of decorum, talk
about behavior that goes beyond acceptable norms. Jasmine Crockett is
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simply following the example of all of the leaders in
her party. And what's more is, especially with social media days,
she has learned the wrong lesson. The lesson she's learned
is if you want to get noticed, you have to
be outrageous. That's the lesson she's learned. And that's all
she's doing because the people on the left will reward
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her for this bad behavior.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Okay, but didn't she have any ethics of her own?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Well, those are her ethics because on social media.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
But she should embody higher standards. Insults and unfounded conspiracy theories,
I mean, undermine the credibility of public office. Yes, I
know there might be some folks out there. Oh remember
when President Trump questioned Obama's birth certificate.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Right? And Donald Trump certainly can have a potty mouth
on himself. He used the F bomb a while back
and that got people, you know, Twitter, paidd. But the
point here is that Jasmine Crockett's her ethics are if
you want to get noticed, you have to do things
that are outrageous. Doing the right thing in the right way,
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for the right reason doesn't get you likes. And that's
that's her platform. Now social media raise her platform by
being the biggest, loudest, meanest person that she can possibly be.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
So she creates a one minute Facebook reel for example, right,
and she goes out there and she says the Supreme
Court is taking money and that it lacks any ethics
guard reels, which is without without any context in this
one minute video or any or nuance, right well, or
any evidence. And now you've got young people, young malleable,
(08:41):
young people who hear that, Oh, you know, everybody's corrupt.
I mean the Republicans are corrupt in Congress and and
in the Supreme Court. I mean they take money.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And this congress person.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
It's the rich that are controlling the entire country.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
This congress person must know what she's talking about, because
after all, she dropped an S bomb. That must mean
that she's really intense.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Oh she's keeping it real.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
No, this is.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Unreal's keeping it unreal. This is how you break.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
A republic by this kind of behavior from people who
should know better.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
She should know better. I should That's debatable.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
She says she went to college and she's really really smart.
If that's the case, she should know better.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
You know, a college degree doesn't really indicate how smart
you are.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Let's get to the top of things. You need no before tomorrow,
pers thing you need no before tomorrow. For the third
month in a row, no illegal aliens were allowed to
cross into the country. The Trump administration announced the official
numbers for July twenty four thousand, six hundred and thirty
people were caught trying to sneak into the country. They
(09:46):
were encountered by border patrol nation wide, with only four thousand,
five hundred and ninety eight at the Southwest border. That's
fewer apprehensions at the Southwest border in the entire month
of July than the daily average during the Biden administration.
The same time, seventy eight one thousand people have applied
to become ice officers in the past week. That means
more people are signing up to enforce the law at
the border than are currently attempting to break the law
(10:07):
at the border.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
You know, how you explain this if you're on the left,
how people don't want to come to the United States
anymore because of Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
No, we don't need new laws. We just need to
enforce the laws we have.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
And yes, I'm saying that tongue in chee.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Second thing you needed from wal Cambodia became the third
nation this year to nominate President Donald Trump for a
Nobel Peace Prize. Two weeks ago, Trump stopped a war
between Cambodi and Thailand with two phone calls and tariff threats.
Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister son At Chanthal gave an interview
to The Wall Street Journal, saying he should get the
Nobel not only for his work on Cambodia, but also elsewhere.
We acknowledge his great efforts for peace. Both Israel and
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Pakistan have already nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize
this year. He was nominated for the Peace Prize multiple
times during his first administration, but was not awarded the
prize back then.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Okay, you and I disagree on this. I say he's
getting the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I say he should get it. I'm just not convinced
you have it. I am certain he's getting it. You
have higher failed in the Nobel Committee than I do.
And the third thing you need to before tomorrow. South
Carolina Congressman Nancy Base is running for governor. The first
woman graduate of the Citadel is joining a crowded race
for the Republican primary. South Carolina is Lieutenant Governor Pamela
Yvette and Attorney General Allan Wilson are already in the running,
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so is Congressman Ralph Norman and State Senator Josh Kembrell.
In her announcement, Representative May said South Carolina needs a
governor who will drag the truth into the sunlight and
flip the tables if that's what it takes. I've walked
into firestorms and I've come out swinging.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Well.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
You know, South Carolina, it's already doing so well on
so many measures.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, it's definitely one of those states that's growing faster
than most of the rest of the country. And they
are doing and it's because they are they are living
by conservative principles.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
They better elect a conservative who believes those principles.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
We'll be ab back, stick around.
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Speaker 4 (12:43):
We'll go back to americ You've gut rady on Stephen Parward,
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Speaker 5 (12:46):
Sometimes you just can't win, and I'm fairly sure can
win well in some instances. I think there are some
instances where, especially like President Trump, I know he says,
you know, we're gonna get tired of winning. And he
certainly is true when he says that, because we have
been winning quite a bit.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I'm not getting we need to pace ourselves and just
keep going, keep the winning coming.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
But where I'm going with this is, you know, when
he's not when he's not decisive, you know, a decisive enough.
You know, some folks say, oh he's weak, you know,
or when he's too decisive. They call him a dictator.
You know, if he pauses and he reads the room, well,
then you know, some folks say, oh, he's a sellout.
(13:30):
I mean, it's a no win game for President Trump
sometimes because he's trying to win. He's trying to win
the proverbial war and not just score political points. I mean,
he's got the long game in mind, like, for example,
Kim Jong un. Okay, remember he sat down with Kim
Jong un. Yeah, and the folks on the right from
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our own party said, how could you sit down with
a tyrant? But but what did Trump accomplish from that?
He reduced the North Korean threat? He brought it. He
brought the North Korean Kim Jong Un to the negotiating table,
not with missiles, but with diplomacy, muscle diplomacy.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Right.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
So you know, some folks hated him for talking to
a dictator. Some folks hated him for not bombing one. Right,
But at the same time, in North Korea there's been
no more nuclear testing since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
But it just all reminds me of that quote by
John Lydgate. You can please some of the people all
the time, you can please all the people some of
the time. But you can't please all the people all
the time. There's some people, and frankly, there's some people
you can't ever please, and so don't try that. That's
not your job. Your job is not to please all
of the people. Your job is not to please even
some of the people because their ideas are completely wrong.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
You see, there was a time also with Speaker Mike Johnson. Yeah,
there were some folks that said, oh, you know, he's abandoned,
he's betrayed, he's compromised, exactly because he understood the math.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
He knew he had one vote.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
He was well, he was governing. He was governing with
the slimmest Republican majority in nearly a century.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
No, no, he was Republican. He was governing these House
of Representatives with the smallest majority any speaker of the House.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
No, no, not the small in over one hundred years, I
think since nineteen thirty one, but not ever in history.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
But look, it was not.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
A great deal, not a good one. But at the
same time, you've got to look at would you rather
make a point or would you rather make a difference.
So when you say that someone's not conservative enough, you
got to keep that in mind.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
We got a question for American mama's. Dear mama's, do
you think your spouse should have access to your social
media account?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Well, let's ask our American mamas.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Is now our American mam was Terry Nedville and Kimberly Burlison. Okay,
y'all both have social media. I don't think Kevin does.
I don't think. I don't think I've seen Mike does
he have social media?
Speaker 7 (16:12):
He does, but he's mostly a gamer on his phone.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Games, all right, so he's not really involved. No, no,
all right, So do they have access to your social
medi because both of y'all are very active on social media?
Speaker 7 (16:25):
They he could. I don't care. He knows my passwords, okay,
you know, and sometimes he's gotten in my phone because
he's looking for something and it doesn't bother me. I'm
sure you probably do feel the same way.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Yeah, I don't mind at all. I'm just thinking I
don't remember my password. I had to change it a
couple of times. So if i'm out, if I get
out of Facebook somehow, I don't remember.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
You're excited if he can get into it, Yeah, if he.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Can figure it out, figure it out. But he'll say,
I'll show him like, you know, look at this, at
this there's a time here that I was like, just
get just get your I'm telling you you'll have fun'llah yeah.
He's like, that's I'm not interested at all. If I
need to know something, I'll ask you. And so, yeah,
I would have zero problem with him looking at my Facebook.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Have y'all seen that TikToker? So this guy he walks
in malls or he's at like State Bears or whatever,
and he stops couples and he asks that they're a couple,
and then he says, how long have you been together? Yes,
he've seen that, and so I've seen it where they've
been together for two years but also married couples like
twenty five years. And he'll say, do y'all trust each other?
And they'll like, oh yeah, absolutely absolutely. He goes, would
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you give me your phone so I can see do
that test? And you always in the ones he shows,
there's one that just has that look on their face
like oh gosh, so and always there's one like oh yeah,
here you go. So he looks at their phones and
he starts whatever he does. He starts scrolling through things
like the apps like apps. He'll go through apps and
he'll say who is Travis and hell and the husband
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will say what.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
So you see.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Where things fall apart right in front of your eyes
on these little tiktoks. And I have been shocked at
the number of people that are not doing the right thing,
that are talking to other people find their person's.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Backs, wow, and or they'll be on that on a
dating app that's for cheaters, and that is devastating to
the person that's like you know, in fact, some of
them have broken up at that at that moment.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Moment the spot.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I would think if you had a dating app for
cheaters on your phone, yeah, that would be it.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
I think one of the signs, and people have talked
about this if you have your cell phone and your
spouse and you go to look at their phone and
they like act weird, like what are you looking?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
What do you want?
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Why do you want my phone? That's a red flag.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
You know.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
If if my husband wanted to look at my phone,
he can look at it anytime. There's my phone, open it,
do whatever.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Kevin and my kids use my phone all the time.
They'll grab it to get photos and stuff all the time.
It's like the family phone, you know.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Actually, just the other night, Wendy picked up my phone
and all of a sudden, a group meet text comes in,
and she goes, wait, you're on Group me, and I go, actually,
it's the Alter Ministry group up at church. They're asking
for prayers for people, and so I have I don't
like Group me, but I'm on that because of that,
And sure enough comes the next thing comes in. Would
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you pray for this guy? He's got the end? And
she's like, oh, no, that's fine. But I was like,
that's like an app she didn't know I had. Yeah,
but she had my phone. I don't care. Yeah, you know.
All right, So let me ask another question, because Wendy
and I about the time that she saw the group meet,
think come up. We had this other conversation about bank accounts,
about having separate bank accounts. Do you think couples should
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have separate bank account I mean, if they should be
able to have access to everything on their phone, does
that include the bank account.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
We always had a separate bank account for many years
while I worked, and then when I stopped working, we
had a joint checking account. We deal with money very differently.
And it is not easy. I'm freer with money, uh huh,
you know, with sending it to the kids if they
need something, and he is tight. Yeah, and so this
is interesting. This just happened this week. So Shane was
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texting me Mom, I need some money. Can you send
me some money? And she He's like, I'm scared. I
don't want to ask dad. I don't want doubt, you know,
So I'm texting her, Yes, I'm just gonna send you
some money. Just don't say anything. The only time in
my entire marriage that Mike has wanted to she had
sent me pictures and said, oh, Shane sent me the
cutest pictures. He goes, let me see. I was like,
oh gosh. So I handed my phone and he goes,
(20:18):
can I read the messages? And I went sure, here
we go, Here we go. And he reads the messages
and he goes, are you kidding me? How much did
you send her?
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
My god? The one time? The one time.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Yeah, that is hilariously.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
So if that had happened in them all with the
guy asked you, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
What you'd be worried about.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Just don't show them. The one with my kids. Yeah,
we're her husband's so freaking tight. I don't know, you know,
because we've we've had a joint ever since. But I mean,
you might as well just say it's Kevin's because I'd say, Hey,
I'm gonna I would like to buy a new rug?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Is that okay with you? You know?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
That's how it is, you know, for Wendy and Night,
it's always We've always had a checking account. When we
were first married, she was the one who manders saw
the money, and then now I'm the one who manages
all the money. And I don't remember why that switched
or when that switch, but it definitely switched. But we've
always had a joint checking account, but we've always discussed
big purchases together, so we've always had the same mindset
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about money. So that's been a little bit easier for us.
But we've had several friends who had separate checking accounts
and they ended up with separate last names.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Wow, well, are are we ended it?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Go ahead? Real quick?
Speaker 6 (21:28):
I was just gonna I don't even know what I
was gonna say.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
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Speaker 4 (22:29):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Parb with Lewis.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
You know, we were talking about Jasmine Crockett and how
what she was talking about earlier being complete bonk calling
there not saying Republicans are splicited and destroying democracy because
they're doing what the people voted for them to do,
and then calling the president you know, a piece of excrement.
But apparently what she may be previewing for you is
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the Democrat party plan, because there was a donor event
and a set of slides that were shown to these
donors at this donor event, and apparently the Democrats are
raising tens of millions of dollars for social media campaigns.
In other words, they're trying to hire and when we're
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talking about one hundred and ten million dollars.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Wow for social media campaign.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
For content creators. Oh okay, all right, and that's according
to these slides that were leaked from a donor event. Okay,
and this investment is aimed at shaping and I quote
shaping narratives. How about lying, I mean shaping narratives. You
know the Democrats, they're so artful with their words. I mean,
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of course they are the party of projection, but shaping narratives.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Well, but remember Sam Adams said, how easily the tools
of a tyrant change the meaning of plain words. But
see what that's what Democrats do all the time. Instead
of saying, yeah, we want to we want to tell
the political lies that we want to tell, they go,
we want to shape the narrative. No, you want to
distort the truth.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Let's see what Congressman Crockett, what she was saying earlier.
We were talking about how you know the Republicans in
Congress are complicit with the destruction of the democracy by
the president. It's not some accidental byproduct what she's spewing
you think'sign It is an intentional, well funded strategy that
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is baked into a broader political playbook.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
It's not going to work because the people know who
they voted for. The majority of people voted for Republicans
to do the things that the Republicans are actually doing
in Congress. So if you're trying to convince the people
who voted for Republicans that Republicans are somehow complicit in
destroying democracy when they do what they were voted in
to do, that's a stupid strategy. It's not going to work.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
See. That's why it is important for shows like American
Ground Radio and listeners like you. I mean, you are
more critical than ever before because you've got this media
landscape that is about to be saturated with millions, tens
of millions of dollars just live of political lies. All right,
(25:14):
we got to call it out. We got to call
the mistruths out. We've got a demand accountability we do.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
We do that every day. We do that every day.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
What do I understand our listeners do as well. I'm
just saying their role is even more important.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
For example, we're digging deep, going down, down, down. So
fifty six Democrats from the Texas State Legislature have fled
to Illinois and New York Why because they didn't want
to allow Republicans to move forward in Texas with a
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special session of the legislature. All right, so what will
this special session do. They've got a variety of issues
that the Democrats don't want to vote on. Flood relief.
Remember they had that big, bad flood in parts of
Texas earlier this year. More than one hundred people died
in the floodsmember those Well, there's flood relief in this package.
Democrats want to vote on that. Abortion Texas is already
one of the strongest pro life states. They don't want
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to vote on that. And reducing taxes. They didn't want
to reduce taxes for Texans and the Democrats don't want
to vote on that. But the big one is redistricting.
The Republicans in the state legislature one to end racial
jerrymandering in the state, and by doing so, they planned
to give Republicans five more seats in Congress. Now Democrats
are opposed to this. So it's ironic that they held
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their press conference in Illinois, which is one of the
most jerrymandered states in the country.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Okay, but wait a minute, this isn't the first time
Texas Democrats have pulled this stunt leaving the state twenty
twenty one, didn't they fla twenty twenty three? Well, I
thought it was twenty twenty they Yeah, they started out
the one that they went to Washington, d C.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Yeah, yeah, they did do that in two o'clock voting
restriction legislation.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
In twenty twenty three, they went to New Mexico to
try and block some other voter ID stuff it. But
back go back to two thousand and what was the
two thousand and one they went to Oklahoma?
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Okay, but this is so childish.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I guess it was in two thousand and three they
went to Oklahoma to stop readis seriously, I mean, this
is absolutely a juvenile But California's Governor Gavin Newsom, he
loves this. He posts online saying, this is what fighting
for our democracy looks like.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Playing hide and seek.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah, violating state laws so that you can stop the
democratic process from moving forward is now quote fighting for
our democracy. You see how we're not shaped that narrative? Yeah, yeah,
you shape that narrative.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
I would substitute the word abdicates, Yeah, because I think
flee for the word fighting. Yeah, because I think fleeing
the state in order to avoid tough votes. Yes, abdicates
your responsibilities.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
You know who agrees with you. The governor of the
state of Texas, Greg Abbott, wrote, Democrats hatched a deliberate
plan not to show up for work for the specific
purpose of abdicating the duties of their office and thwarting
the chambers business. He actually uses the same word to you.
He said, that amounts to an abandonment or forfeiture of
an elected state office. When the governor calls a special session,
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our constitution provides that the legislature shall meet. It's not optional,
it's a duty.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
No, there's not a caveat that says, well, if it
doesn't go your way, just run away, right install the
process rather than engaging in the hard work of legislative compromise.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
And according to an official opinion from the Texas Attorney General,
which does carry the weight of law in Texas, any
lawmaker who intentionally does not show up for a legislative
session may be determined to have abandoned their post and
can have their seat vacated and replaced with a special election.
So it's possible the Republicans are about to pick up
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fifty seats in the state House over the next few
days because the Democrats have abandoned their seats. Now it's
not just a violation of the rules of the Texas legislature.
What the Democrats are doing maybe felonies. Here is Governor
Greg Abbott talking on Fox News over the weekend.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
So very simply, it would be bribery if any lawmaker
took money to perform or to refuse to perform and
act in the legislature. And the reports are these legislators
have been both. They sought money and they offered money
to skip the vote, to leave the legislature to take
(29:28):
a legislative act. That would be bribery. And so the
facts will have to come out. But I think, based
upon comments made by legislators themselves, they face a possibility
facing bribery charges, which is a second degree felony in
the state of Texas.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
And look, let me add to that, if Republicans had
pulled this stunt, Oh yeah, CNN would have called it
an insurrection. Yeah, MSNBC would demand mass resignations. The New
York Times editorial board would probably cry about it. Know
that this is the end of democracy. But when Democrats
do it. Oh, it's brave, it's defending democracy.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
You have Gavin Newsom tweeting this is how you fight
for the democracy. You've got JB. Pritzker in Illinois saying, yeah,
we're gonna house these people as long as they possibly
want to stay, you know this, And then you've got
Kathy Hokel up in New York saying yep, we're we are.
And by the way, Kathy Hokel now has a pattern
of protecting people in the state of New York who
are violating state laws in Texas. She's doing it now
(30:29):
with the state legislature. She's protecting that doctor, but she's
also protected that abortion doctor who has who has violated
Texas state law allegedly by prescribing abortion pills into Texas,
which goes against the Texas's abortion bands. And Kathy Hokel
thinks her job is to help people violate the laws
of the state of Texas.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
You know, you know what these same democrats that are
doing these press conferences from what in Albany, New York
or Chicago wherever they are, you know, crying about how
Texas is broken. Well, if it's so broken, why don't
you come back and fix it. Why don't you grow up?
Why don't you take your seat? Why don't you do
the job you were elected to do.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
If Texas is broken, why do they set record numbers
of jobs every single month? Why do they have more
people moving to the state of Texas than anywhere else
with the exception of Florida on some months, Texas ain't broken.
Texas is leading the nation and you're running away from
a winner because you don't like losing.
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Speaker 5 (32:13):
Stephen Parker, Lewis sar So a four million dollar incentive bonus.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Well, that's a big incentive. That is a big big
I accept, Lewis, thank you for offering me a four
million dollars incentive bonus. I accept right here on the air,
this of our listeners.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Yes, I understand. But this was a deal that was
extended to Michael donnollan, one of Joe Biden's longest serving cronies.
This is a guy who's been in Biden's back pocket
since disco was a thing. And he told investigators, you know,
because a lot of these folks close to Biden, they've
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been taking the fifth. Well a lot of them are
talking right now, are they. Well, yeah, because a lot
of them have been taking the fifth. They have but
three in a row. So he says that he would
have pocketed eight million dollars if Biden had won reelection
in twenty twenty four. And for what whoa for loyalty,
for silence, for services rendered, maybe just showing up with
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pom poms and being the hype man for a president
who can't remember what state he's in. I mean, this
is outrageous, and yet somehow this isn't even shocking anymore.
This is how business is done, or was done in
Biden world. I mean, you don't get thanked with a
pat on the back or a framed photo. You get
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handed a fat paycheck for sticking around, okay, whispering into
Joe's ears.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Eight million dollars is a ton of money just for
what did Donaldan do to what? God only knows. Let
me ask another question here, is eight million dollars enough
incentive to encourage someone to violate the law when it
comes to voting laws? Well know, I'm just saying, I mean,
(34:02):
that's a lot of money. I mean, I get wait
if I get eight million, or what if how many.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Thousand dollars would be enough for how many mail in
ballots do.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I have to do to get that eight million? See
that that's a problem. That's a real problem.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
But see every I mean you you do have to
wonder what what was he doing for that?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Right?
Speaker 5 (34:23):
I mean, I mean, so he got his regular salary
I guess as part of the campaign A four million?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Yes, and then which is a lot of money if.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
He won, If Biden won reelection, he'd get another four million.
So that is incentive enough to I mean, you do
you are working with a very difficult candidate. Yeah, I
mean that it's it's a tough job to try to
sell that to the American people. But at the same.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Time, that's, my gosh, that kind of money. Yeah, that
that's kind of corruption type money. Let's get to a
brid spot.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
I'm doing all right, getting good grades.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
So there's been this big brew haha online since the
clothing brand American Eagle released a commercial campaign featuring the
actress Sidney Sweeney. She's wearing blue jeans and the announcer says,
Sidney Sweeney has great genes.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Okay, you know what, hmm, I'm all for it. I
want to talk about this story. But it's very interesting
to me. Yeah, in the span of ten days, yes,
we have talked about this story three times, maybe four
maybe four? All right, I mean that is that is
(35:42):
a remarkable frequency. And the question is, uh huh. Is
it because you know she is particularly attractive Sidney Sweeney,
It's because this whole thing went viral, or it's because
of all the If no one else had talked about this,
you and I would not have talked about Sidney Sweeney's commercial.
(36:02):
Or is it because the left has just become enraged
it and it suddenly it becomes kind of fodder.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
That's those on the right. That's why is the left
has gone outrageous. But this is a bright spot about
the reaction to the outrage. So basically, the terminally offended
folks on the left lost their minds. They said this
ad was literally Nazism, it's racist, it's fastest, it's the
master race all over again, just because American Eagle is
making a pun between the word genes g e n
(36:30):
e s and Jens j E n E s now.
In recent years, when the woke mob has come for
company companies, sometimes those companies have backed down. Yes, sometimes
the time. No, No Hobby lobbed in, back down, Chick
fil aated in, backdown.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
But I'm talking about like Coca Cola, the Delta Airlines.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
There's others that have backed down, not American Eagle, and
I think that's a bright spot. Over the weekend, they
released a statement on their social media platforms quote, Sidney
Sweeney has great genes is and always was about the genes,
her genes, j E and e s. Her story will
continue to celebrate how everyone wears their American Eagle jeens
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with confidence their way. Great genes look good on everyone
and by the way all those genes J E. A. N. S.
I think that's a very good response to the controversy.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
Okay, But at the same time, I mean not to
get philosophical or spiritual here, but we're all created in
the image of God. Absolutely, so our genetic makeup. I mean,
it's in the Bible that He knows every hair on
your head.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
But it's also a truth and objective truth. There are
some people who are just more attractive than other people.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
First of all, genes don't have to be about beauty, no,
I mean, there's it's intelligence, kindness, speed, physical fitness of
the spirituality I mean faith. I mean, there's so many
other qualities that make that are made up obviously by
your genetic makeup.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
Now, at the same time, American Eagle executive Ashley Shapiro
put out a LinkedIn post talking about the ideas behind
the campaign. She said, during a zoom call with Sidney,
we asked the question, how far do you want to
push it without hesitation? She smirked and said, let's push it.
I'm game. Our response challenge accepted. So Sidney Sweeney was
in on this. She wanted to do this commercial. She
thought it was going to be a good campaign. And
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then what's more, it came out over the weekend Sidney
Sweeney is a registered Republican. Okay, but again that's got
more folks upsets, that is, but it's still not stopping
American Eagle and their Great Genes campaign. And that's the
way to respond to the woke mob. But we say
moving on, But we.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Say on this show, there is greatness within each of us. Absolutely,
that's because our genes are great, because we are made
in the image of God.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
That's right. The left doesn't understand it, which is why
you don't bow to the mob. We'll be back.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
You're listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen Power.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
When you check into a hotel, oftentimes they'll ask you
for a deposit.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Okay, you can give a credit card to hold the room.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Well, no for incidentals, which basically means if you trash
the place, we've got a way of collecting whatever you destroy,
or if you order no I understand. I mean that's
the other side of that spectrum. But apparently the United
States State Department is set to roll out a similar program.
(39:46):
They call it a twelve month visa bond. Pilot program,
So some foreign tourists and business travelers will be required
to post a bond basically a depot right for coming
into this country. Maybe it's five thousand, ten thousand, up
to fifteen thousand before you even come into the country.
(40:08):
And then if you leave and you don't destroy anything
on your way out.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
Yeah, you get your money back.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
The State Department will refund your money all right. Now,
hopefully that that's full refund.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Now that's not just for tourist visas like just coming
in to visit Disney World.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Well no, well some of these are for longer visus.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Which those are the folks who end up being more
likely to violate their visas and just don't go home.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
So you'll get the full refund. You'll get your money back.
It's not just if you don't destroy anything. I'm being
facetious there, but if you leave the country on time
right and at the designated port right you're supposed to
be leaving the country right, otherwise the bond will be
forfeited to the Treasury.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Whoa when I say whoa? Ah me. Last week, President
Donald Trump restarted the presidential Physical Fitness test. Here are
some words of wisdom about being physically fit. Share. Nothing
lifts me out of a bad mood better than a
(41:11):
hard work out on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercises
nothing short of a miracle. Plato, lack of activity destroys
the good condition of every human being, while movement and
methodical exercise save it and preserve it. And how about
Thomas Jefferson. Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself
to walk very far.
Speaker 5 (41:33):
Now, and you know what, Walking is very effective good exercise.
It truly is, especially for older folks that you might
have some tough knees or whatnot.
Speaker 4 (41:42):
And sometimes if you need to check up from the
neck up, hit the pavement. Now your pursuit of happiness,
bring your joy,
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