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August 8, 2025 41 mins
This is the full show for August 7, 2025. We ask the American Mamas what clues make them think a marriage is in trouble. We Dig Deep into the Census that President Trump announced. Plus, JK Rowling is defending the right to free speech, and it's a Bright Spot. And we finish off with some words of wisdom from JK Rowling that will make you say, "Whoa!" 
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Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm telling you, this is one of those moments where
you stop, you blink twice, and you say, wait a second,
did that really happen? Okay, Because for the first time
in a very long time, maybe the first time in decades,
some of the most powerful, entrenched, untouchable deep state figures

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in Washington, DC have actually been shown the door. Not promoted,
not reassigned, not quietly given a special advisory role until retirement,
but fired. And not just any mid level bureaucrats, mind you.
We're talking about former Acting Director Brian Driscoll, Washington Field

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Office Chief Steve Jensen, Special Agent Walter Giardana.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Are these FBI guys?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
These are all FBI folks, we're talking about the acting
director of the FBI, all of them neck deep in
that whole January sixth prosecutions and the year's long witch
hunt against Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Did you say prosecutions or persecutions both? Were these the
guys who decided to hide all the video evidence that
the government had and didn't let the defendants have that evidence,
which has violated their constitutional rights.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
But see, this is what's so exciting about this. This
is not just business as usual in Washington. This is
the exact opposite of business as usual. And it is
absolutely glorious, Okay, absolutely glorious because look, we've seen this
for years and years and years, not what we saw today,
but we've seen this pattern of corruption right partisan FBI

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officials where they can trample on our due process, they
can leak it out to the media, they can twist
the facts to fit their narrative, they can ruin reputation,
drained people's bank accounts with endless legal battles, and nothing
happens to them. If anything, they climbed the ladder, they
write a book, they become a CNN or MSNBC contributor.

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I mean, you get a lot of that. They're rewarded
for their abuses. But this time examples. But this time,
this time, I'm telling you one, the curtain is closed
on that act. These guys didn't get a soft landing.
They didn't get a golden parachute. They got the boot

(03:34):
right in the rear. You know what I'm saying. You
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
So Coosh Ptel fired them? Is that who fired them?
Or Pambonding?

Speaker 3 (03:41):
None of those two names were mentioned in the reporting.
It says the FBI fired them.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Okay, Well, but Kashtel's the head of the.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
I mean, so yeah, the bodies the stops there. But
they were not named as the ones who who fired
them called them in Okay, so presumably it would have
been part of ordinary human resources.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
So why were they fired? Does it say why they're fired?
Just that they were fired.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
It just says that they were fired. Now, look, some
folks have speculated, you know. President Trump asked the FBI,
the acting director, Driscoll Fella, asked him for the names
of those who participated in the January sixth.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh yeah, because the FBI.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Hadstigations and prosecutions.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Well on January sixth, the FBI did have informants in
the crowd. Now, the FBI has refused to answer the
question of whether they had actual FBI agents in the crowd,
undercover agents, and they have refused to answer whether those
were the people who instigated the breach of the fence,
the breach of the capitol itself, And they refused because

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there's some people who think the whole thing was an
FBI set up. There were FBI informants in the crowd
around the capital and in the Capitol on January sixth.
The question is were they instigators or were they followers?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
So the acting director here did release those names, but
they were made classified right, so they're released, but they
weren't actually released exactly. And this other fellow's Steve Janssen.
He ran the Washington Field office, which by the way,
was ground to zero for the whole January sixth investigation.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
But before that he also ran of correct me if
I'm wrong, he ran the Michigan Field office.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
I think you're right.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
And he was the guy who came up with the
idea to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer. Now they prosecuted some men
for that, some conservatives for that, who they said, were,
you know, heads of a militia. But it was the
FBI's idea to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer. It was the FBI
who paid for all the training to do it. It
was the FBI who paid for the airline and the

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hotel stays for all these guys. Man, this was complete
entrapman and multiple times throughout that whole operation they prosecuted
for it and said, I don't want to do this.
I don't think this is a good idea. We shouldn't
kidnap the governor. That's not solving our problems. And the
FBI and the FBI's agents and the FBI's informants when

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you're doing it.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
No, I think the tone is changing. And this is
why it's so significant that tone. That is because in Washington,
tone is everything. It's not just about policy memos or
press releases. It's about the unwritten rules everyone in the
bureaucracy lives by. I mean, because for decades, the unwritten
rule that the FBI has been, if you target the

(06:34):
right people, huh, the people the establishment wants targeted. Yeah,
you'll be safe. Well, and that's how you had crossfire, hurricane,
That's how you got to steal dossier. That's how we
got the FBI lawyers falsifying FEISA applications and walking away
with nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Because they were going after the people the establishment wanted
to go after, i e. Republicans, they were defending Democrats,
they were prosecuting Republicans. The establishment like that, so they
were able to keep doing it.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
But now I think the tone is shifting. I think
the new message is if you abuse your power for
partisan gain, you're done. You're done. You're going You're not
going to get promoted, You're not going to be shielded.
You're not going to be out. You know, you're not
going to be You're going to be out on the street.

(07:25):
I mean, this is a seismic change. And let me
tell you something. I think the rank and file are
watching within the FBI, and the rank and file matter
because the FBI isn't just a handful of top brass,
it is thousands of agents and analysts and support staff
across the country.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
The FBI lost a lot of rank and file. During
the Biden administration, there were a lot of good agents.
I know some who who quit because they didn't want
to do pre dawn raids on a MAGA supporter simply
because they were at the Capitol. This makes no sense.
We should be bringing armor and dogs and doorbusters and

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shields to wake some guy up out of his bedroom
because he went on a tour of the Capitol. And
yet that's what the FBI's number one priority was. During
the entire Biden administration. They lost a lot of good
agents who quit, went into private industry, went into other
government roles. They were tired of being used as as

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political jack boots for the Biden administration.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
And look, this doesn't mean the deep state is gone,
but not by far. But the deep state did take
a huge hit here. Because here's the other part of this.
Here's the thing about the deep state. It operates on intimidation.
That's its power comes from the perception that it is invincible,
that it can destroy you, but you can't touch it.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
It's what Chuck Schumer said, Donald Trump should be careful
about going after the intelligence agencies because they've got six
ways of Sunday of getting back at you. He said
that before all of the Russia Russia Russia abuses.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
But the moment, right, but I think the moment that
that perception starts to crack, the whole thing becomes vulnerable.
And I think that's why what happened with these firings.
Finally someone's being held accountable is so monumental. Let's get
to the.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Top three things you need to know before tomorrow. First
thing you need no. President Trump named Steven Miran to
the Federal Reserve Board last week. FED board member Adrianna
Kugler announced she was retiring early, giving the President a
surprise appointment. Mirn is currently the chair of the Council

(09:42):
of Economic Advisors and a Harvard graduate. His appointment to
the board now has people speculating he may be Trump's
topic to replace Jerome Powell as FED chairman when Powell's
term ends next May. Miran still has to be approved
by the Senate before he will be able to start
serving on the Federal Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
You know what, I'm going to make a prediction here. Okay,
Powell is not going to finish out his term.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
You don't think it's gonna be still there.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
I think I don't know that Trump's going to fire him,
but I think he may in fact say, you know what,
you can have this.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Second thing in you know before a while, California's deep
fake law has been struck down by a federal court.
Elon Musk, The Babylon b Rumble and an individual named
Christopher Coles sued the state of California after Governor Gavin
Newsom banned deep fakes that impersonated politicians on social media
and internet platforms. A spokeswoman for Governor Newsom told The
Daily Signal quote, we are still reviewing the court's ruling,

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but remain convinced that common sense labeling requirements for deep
fakes are important to maintain the integrity of our elections.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
I think I think they're right.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
You think California is right that we should be labeling
deep fakes.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Well, I mean, I think to some degree. I mean,
because to the extent that they're imperceptible the differences.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, Look, it's still it's it's a parody. The parody
is still a free speech thing. It's what it's protected
by the First Amendment, has been forever. Just because we're
better at parody than we used to be. Doesn't mean
we should shall.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Launch Those deep fakes are getting a lot better every day, and.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
The third thing you needed before. The Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton is investigating Democrat Veto a Roar for potential bribery.
Paxton is looking into accusations that O'Rourke's political action committee,
powered by people, paid for flights from Texas to Illinois
and New York for the fifty six Democrat state reps
who are refusing to show up for a special session
of the state legislature. Texas. Las says paying money to

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get a lawmaker to support or oppose any legislative action
is bribery. Paxton released a statement saying any Democrat coward
breaking the law by taking a betto bribe will be
held accountable. Texas cannot be bought. I look forward to
thoroughly reviewing all the documents and communications obtained.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
What do you think about that?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
I think Beto's in trouble looks like bribery to me.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
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Speaker 1 (12:44):
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Speaker 3 (12:46):
You know it's important to love yourself absolutely. It's different, though,
to be in love with yourself. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
I mean there's a difference between saying, you know what, Uh,
I am deserving of love, I'm deserving of respect, and
also going I am the bomb dot com.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Because when the mirror becomes your best friend, when your
phone camera becomes your full time job, and the people
you're supposed to be serving are nothing more than a
background or background props for your own personal reality show,
you got a problem, and guess what. Democrat Rep. Jasmine
Crockett has got a problem.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
She likes, she likes her some some some hers.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
She likes some she likes some like Yes, Indeed, but
the reports that are coming out, it's being reported by
the New York Post from her own staffers say that
she's not a public servant, that she's the boss from Hell,
that she screams at her aids, that she lays around

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her apartment instead of showing up to the office, and
that she's known obviously for a foul mouth. We've heard
her saying that publicly she yells at other people. Why
wouldn't she yell at her staff name name, one person, name.
One time you have seen Jasmine Crockett on camera treating
someone respectful. Now since she's been elected, well, her staffers

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say that if there's not a camera around, she's not
showing up to whatever that event is, including in Congress.
I mean like going to her office in Congress. There
aren't cameras there right in her own Well, she's got
a phone. She could post congressional office. She should post

(14:35):
videos of herself. Well, she certainly could. But at the
same time, this is the modern Jasmine Crockett represents the
modern Left in a nutshell. It is style over substance.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
It's focused on race first and foremost.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
It's theatrics.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
It's victimhood, not victor hood.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
I mean, you've got a member of Congress. Just let
this sink in. You've got a member of Congress who,
according to her staffers, as being reported by the New
York Post, who thinks that her real job is becoming
TikTok famous.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yeah, because she has more influence being TikTok famous than
she does in Congress. Because she actually isn't that smart persuasive.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
And it sounds like the staffers in Washington are more
serious about their jobs, which is why they're talking to
the New York Post. They didn't sign up for this.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
I do think staffords in New York, in Washington, d c.
Are very committed to their jobs. That's why they do them.
We got a question for American mama's. Dear mama's, what
are the clues that make you think a marriage is
in trouble?

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well, let's ask God Merrick and mama's.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Mama Ma and Joni Is now are American mama's. Terry
Nediville and Kimberly Burlason, We're good. I don't see why
y'all are just staring at me this.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
They are fine. Let me tell you this is my sign,
and I'm sorry for anybody that's done this. But yes, yes,
I always have that feeling like, oh, something's when people
renew their vowels. Really, I think some look at Bruce
Jenner and Chris Jinner, you know what I mean, they're

(16:22):
like a big example. But this filters down to everybody else.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
I know.

Speaker 6 (16:26):
Usually when they have to come together and renew their vowels,
it's because something's going wrong, or something went wrong, something's wrong,
or they've lost each other and they're trying to bring
it there. They need something to you know, bring it
back together gesture thing. Yes, I think it is exactly.

(16:47):
I Also, my other little sign is when and I'm
this is not anniversaries or birthdays, but when one of
them starts doing these long love professing professing their love.
I'm like, is this person not right next to you
right now while you're writing this. I'm like, when they
start professing their love and putting all this stuff on,
that's again I'm like, Uh, they're covering up something, they're

(17:11):
covering up. It's just the way my mind.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
Works so interesting. I'm trying to.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Think, so wait, is it just a single post that's
a long thing, or if they're doing multiple okay, multiple,
because I have done a single. I'm not saying a
like an anniversary, a birthday or I just love you. Yeah,
I'm talking because I've done that in the past.

Speaker 6 (17:27):
This is like like something's going on.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
Okay, so this is yes, yes, And they're also, uh, Stephen,
you're a wordsmith, you're a writer. That's kind of how
you express yourself. So there's always an exception. So imagine
that there's like some guy that's never on social media
and all of a sudden, all of a sudden, maybe
those cryptic messages. A lot of women do this, like

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if there's if there's a struggle going on, they'll do
these little cryptic post where it's a meme or it's
like a quote, and you're like trying.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
To dissect it, like women know, women pick up on them,
and then you go back and.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
You're like, look at pictures. Are they still are they
still together in these pictures? I mean, I guess that
would be a telltale sign. I'm so honest to god,
I'm so clueless about everything. It feels like that I
don't know. And then when it happens, if somebody splits,
I'm like what.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
But then you usually can go back and say yeah,
then you go back. I said, yeah, you know, I
asked Mike this question is like what signs do you
and he's like.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
What, I know, I don't think.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
Guys don't even think, he said, I don't even think
about anybody else's relationships.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
I know, you know.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
It's like, yeah, it's like if they divorce, it's just
like WHOA never saw that coming. Yeah, you know, it's
just they're not interested. Whereas women, we pick up on
little cues like you're talking about the memes and that,
you know.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
It's these deep thoughts. Yeah, and you're like, wow, and
what does that mean? You'll reach out to one of
their friends and everything. Okay, is everything good?

Speaker 1 (18:57):
So for me this may sound really weird, but in pictures,
if they don't there's not a full smile. And what
I mean by that is a smile that actually reaches
your eyebrows or your your eyelids, right, So if someone's
actually smiling, there's actually a little crinkle right on the
edge of the eye. You can do a stage smile
and it doesn't reach that level. You got the smile

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on the teeth and all the but if you look
at the eyes, there's not like a little squint in
the eye. So if I'm not seeing in pictures the
squint in the eyes when they're posting pictures of them smile.
I see this with celebrity couples all the time, especially
after they've broken up. You go back and you look
and yeah, that's the look they're they're they're on the
red carpet and neither one of them looks happy to
be there.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
I am shocked every time whenever, even celebrities.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
You know.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
The only one that I thought, oh, and it's because
he can't hide his emotions is Ben Affleck and oh Niffer. Yeah,
you could absolutely see that this was breaking apart, you know.
And the first telltale was her that stupid documentary about
their love and she shared all of his letters while
he was married to Jennifer. She shared this book of

(20:04):
letters that he when he was professing his love and
on there they interviewed him and he was livid. He
was like, she shared that, like, she shared that with
all of y'all, and she knew that it wasn't right
at the at the time. She was when she was
sharing it, and I thought, oh boy, oh that is
that's bad, because you've got children, you know, you've got
children in the mix, so you know, I could tell

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about them. But there's a lot of couples that I'm
just like, whow, I thought that huge?

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Hugh Jackman, Yeah, he and his wife. I was shocked.
I was like what. Because there's some couples that you
just think, oh, once they've made it past that ten mark,
twenty mark, you're like, oh, they're they're golden. So when
it happens, you're like, oh my god. You just never
know what's going on.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
It's the matching tattoos is another sign, is it right?

Speaker 4 (20:47):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
Yeah, well this is I did not know that. But
you know, when I saw this question, you know, I
start looking it up and I saw where a lot
of people felt like when people start getting matching tattoos
after many years.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
I'm like, so it's when someone does a really really
big gesture that seems like it's almost too big.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
That's that's the side. Yeah, that there's something going on.

Speaker 6 (21:10):
Because if you're like us, you just living your best life.
I'll marry the love of mine. We just have the
best life. But I don't even think to put anything
out there because he's right beside me right, I'll just tell.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Him, Yeah. I text Wendy a lot more wordsmithy stuff.
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did want.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
To comment one more time here, very briefly about this
whole manufactured outrage over someone saying Sidney Sweeney has good
genes in the in her new.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
In the new American jeans.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Like the geens you wear but you know, like your
genetic well no.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
No, the commercial was she has good genes like the
genes she wears. It's a it's a playoffs.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
I know what the hand was saying. I'm saying what
I'm talking about here, right. What I'm talking about here
is when you say that someone has good or good
genetic makeup, it's not racist. No, it's an acknowledgment of biology.
And by the way, it shouldn't be controversial because the
Bible is very clear that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Speaker 6 (23:16):
Right.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
God created humanity in his image, with variety, with different strengths,
with different appearances, and he called it. He called our
differences very good, not very racist. So the idea that
certain physical features or talents or aptitudes can be inherited,

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it's not some modern conspiracy. I mean, it's been observable
since canaan Abel well, and I mean Adam and Eve's
children look like them, Isaac's sons inherited their parents' features.
It's part of God's design.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Well, and just saying that someone's got good genes doesn't
necessarily mean that they are good looking. You can have
good genes in a variety of different ways, and I
think everybody does. You've got some you know, Olympic athletes,
and yes, while they do some great training, frankly to
make that level, you usually start off with the genetic advantage.
You've got, you know, faster, quick twitch muscles, You've got

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a body build that that's just naturally better for whatever
sport you're doing. You've got people that are smarter than
other people. They've got good genes and that they're able.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
To present companies.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
I'm talking about other people. There's millions of people smarter
than me. Millions. There are people that have good genes
in that regard, in that they're able to learn things
easier than other people able to learn. So it's not
just about good looking. Your genes go a long way
to giving you advantages in different areas, and you can
learn to take advantage of what your natural gifts are.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
No. Absolutely so saying that someone has good genes, it's
not racist, it's not controversial. It's a compliment that is
actually rooted in both science, yes, and scripture.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
There you go. So it's a bright spot. But it's
not time for bright spots. It's time to dig deep,
going down, down down, Oh boy, President Trump started the
day with a massive piece of news. He wrote, I
have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work

(25:23):
on a new and highly accurate census, based on modern
day facts and figures, and importantly, using the results and
information gained from the presidential election of twenty twenty four.
People who are in our country illegally will not be
counted in the census. Thank you for your attention to
this matter.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Well, yeah, I mean, who thought that illegal immigrants uh
huhm should be counted in the census, because the census
obviously determines how many members of Congress.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Basically the entire Democrat Party thinks that illegal alien should
be counted in the census.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
But they're not supposed to be here. They're not in
the first place, right they are, But the members of
Congress shouldn't be representing they should be representing Americans illegal immigrants.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
I agree with that, but that's not the way it's
been done. This, by the way, would be the first
time in American history that a census was taken between decades.
The Constitution requires a census every ten years, and it
began in seventeen ninety, so every ten years is a
year Indian zero. But it doesn't say you can only
do a census every ten years. It says within every

(26:30):
subsequent term of ten years. So yes, President Trump does
have the legal right to request a new census. The
twenty twenty census was historically flawed. That's been proven, and
it was admitted to by the Census Bureau itself. In
May of twenty twenty two, during the Biden administration, the
Census Bureau published report twenty twenty Census overcounts in six states,

(26:54):
undercounts in six states, overcounts in eight states. So the
Census itself said it screwed up on fourteen of the
fifty states during the twenty twenty census. That's a twenty
eight percent error rate, more than one in four.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
You know. And as you were talking there, and I
was thinking about what we were talking about just a
few minutes ago. I mean, these illegal immigrants are not
only being counted in our census, they're voting in our
elections as well.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
In some cases, Yes, there are illegal aliens who are
voting in our elections.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Now, the states that were undercounted Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee,
and Texas. So you have five red states that were undercounted,
including the two largest Red states, and one large blue state.
The states that were overcounted Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio,
Rhode Island, and Utah. So you have six blue states

(27:47):
that were overcounted, two red states overcounted. So the errors
in the twenty twenty census helped six blue states while
hurting five red states, including again the two largest red states.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Now I know a lot of folks say, you know,
they hear what we're talking about. They might say, well,
this is all about immigration.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
No, this is about this is about political power.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
But this is also about what happens when you elect
a businessman to the White House. Because in business, you
don't wait ten years to derive the problem to review
your market data. You constantly assess, you adjust, you had,
you respond to the new realities. I mean, for example,
if your store is losing customers, right, you've got to

(28:27):
figure it out now because not a decade from now,
because a decade from now you'll be out of business.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
And the government only does a decade at a time.
Because of the airs of the twenty twenty census, Texas
and Florida should have both picked up three more congressional seats.
New York, California, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, and Minnesota all should
have lost one. The Democrats should have lost six congressional seats,
and Republicans should have picked up an extra six seats.
That's a twelve seat swing, which is more than double

(28:55):
the current Republican advantage in the House. That's why this
is important, all right now.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Well, also it also forces accountability because if your state
is bleeding residents, you can't hide it for ten years.
The loss is going to be documented, you know, in
real time.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
All right, you've been bringing up the illegal alien What
about not counting illegal aliens? President Trump issued an executive
order in twenty twenty banning the census from counting illegal aliens,
but a lower court issued a nationwide injunction against it,
and when Biden got into office in twenty twenty one,
he reversed Trump's order, so illegal aliens were counted in
the twenty twenty census. Well, now, lower courts aren't allowed

(29:38):
to issue nationwide injunctions like they have been doing against
Donald Trump since the twenty seventeen So yes, there will
be lawsuits, but it will take a Supreme Court to
issue a nationwide adjunction against it. Now, the Supreme Court
may still come out and say you have to count
illegal aliens because the Constitution says it says you don't

(29:59):
have to count Indians, but it does say you have
to count everybody else living in the US. Well, that could,
by the way, if the Supreme Court rules in favor
of Trump, you could land even more Republican seats because
the vast majority of illegal aliens live in Democrat congressional districts,
Congressional districts that are represented by Democrats, mostly in inner cities.

(30:23):
If you're decreasing those population counts, you're going to be
adding in, by necessity, some Republicans into those areas, which
could change the outcome of some of those elections. This
is going to be a big fight.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
It's coming well, and you're going to get the biggest
pushback from folks like well California, New York, Illinois, because
they have been hemorrhaging population, right but yet they still
keep somehow the same number of congressional seats and the
same share of federal dollars for years, even though they're

(30:57):
losing people.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
And this is also part So this is about political power,
keeping the number of congressional seats you want to keep.
But it's also about, as you mentioned, federal dollars. Federal
dollars keep going to California because California has incentivized illegal
aliens coming to California, so they're encouraging people to violate
the law so that California gets more political power and

(31:20):
more federal money.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
That's not right, Noe. This was the right thing to do.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
We'll see how it plays out. Stick Aram.

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Speaker 3 (32:14):
Stephen Paul with Lewis, I can say this, I'm glad
that they're at least getting some mental health assistance because
most of the homeless all across this country suffer from
mental illness.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yet mental illness and drug abuse. And sometimes you get
drug abuse that leads to mental illness, and sometimes the
mental illness led to drug abuse. But those are the
two most common reasons.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Now, New York City is opening the first in the nation,
the first transgender only homeless shelter. So this is a
shelter partnership between the local lgbt Q nonprofit and the
city government. They're going to open the first the nation's

(33:02):
first homeless shelter dedicated to transgender only homeless people. Okay,
and it will only cost the citizens of New York
City sixty five million dollars.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
No, how many houses can you buy for that?

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Well? See, And this is why I say it's a
good It is a good idea on one hand, because
there will be a full time psychiatric nurse practitioner on
site who will work closely with social workers and other
credentialed staff. But what are the comprehensive mental health support right?

Speaker 1 (33:40):
But what are the odds that that mental health professional
is going to say, Okay, let's talk about your body
dysmorphia odds next to nothing. This mental health professional most
likely is going to be affirming their delusion, not trying
to get folks to understand actual reality, not trying to

(34:01):
get to the root cause of why when they look
in the mirror they don't see what God created. That's
that's the problem these mental health professionals. And until and
unless you do that, you're not actually helping people. You're not.
You wouldn't say to an anorexic, yep, you're fat.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
But most homeless people, I get it, And you're right,
what kind of help are they going?

Speaker 1 (34:22):
What kind of help are you actually gonna get for
sixty four million? Sixty five?

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Sixty five are sixty me? What's a million? But the
other part of this is I do think it's good
that they're getting desperately needed psychiatric or mental health assistance.
But the question is should that come at a price
tag of sixty five million dollars? And should that be
charged to the people of New York City.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
Again, this is when the Left is going to like,
look at how much good we're doing, See how much
money we're spending.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
Because a lot of this.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
What are the results? What are you going to get
for that sixty five million dollars? You could buy sixty
five p people million dollar homes for that kind of money.
Is that what's gonna happen. Let's get to a brid spot.
I'm doing all right, getting good grades. So author JK.

(35:19):
Rowling is at bridespot in the fight for free speech.
The author of the Harry Potter books, movies and plays,
and TV shows, regularly fights for free speech online. Do
you follow her Twitter feed? J?

Speaker 3 (35:34):
So?

Speaker 1 (35:34):
She's come under fire in recent years because of her
feminist stance that men are not and cannot be women.
She insists that allowing men into women spaces and sports
causes real harm to women. As a result, the far
left often attacks her, calls her a turf, they try
to silence her online and so false.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
What a turf? What's a a trans exclusionary, reactionary feminist?
Why think whatever they think?

Speaker 1 (36:03):
That's an insult? Okay, she thinks, Yeah, calling her turf,
I've never heard that term before. Well, she wrote on
Twitter today, freedom of speech means freedom to cause offense.
The number of supposed liberals who've fallen at this most
basic Kurdle because for the first time in their lives
they risk losing the approval of their tribe. Has been staggering.

(36:27):
She's right on this. Saying things people agree with is
not brave. You don't have to fight for the right
to say things people agree with. Free speech is about
saying things that people may disagree with or worse, that
they may find offensive. Elon Musk. One of my favorite
quotes from Elon Musk free speech. If you respect free speech,

(36:50):
that's about people you don't like saying things you don't like.
If you've got people you like saying things you like,
you don't need to defend free speech. Free spe beach
is about people you don't like saying things you don't like,
and you've got to have that that commitment to that
freedom of speech. And JK. Rowling does I think that's

(37:11):
bright spot.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
Look, the founders didn't right the First Amendment to protect
polite conversation. No, you know, at a garden party. I mean,
it's not there to safeguard speech that everyone nods along to.
Freedom of speech means you get to say the things
that make people uncomfortable, right, I mean otherwise, I mean,
why bother that has no hit. What are you protecting?

(37:34):
Why protect it as a right if everyone you know
already agrees.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
One of the most interesting things about this and about Rolling,
is that she's not a conservative. She's an old school liberal,
but she is shunned by the people she has been
voting with and voting for her entire adult life. She's
having to stand up against the tyranny of her own tribe.
She's actually living out one of the lines from her

(37:59):
first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Remember this
from the movie.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up
to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand
up to your friends.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to
your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up
to your friends. That's what she's doing. I do not
agree with everything JK. Rowling says, but I will continue
to fight for her right to say it. And I
believe she would do the same for me and for you,
And that is what makes her a bright spot.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
Exactly. Freedom of speech means the freedom to offend. And
that's where the liberals they get it all wrong.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
They don't understand that because they think the right to
not be offended is the most important right in the world,
and they could not be more wrong.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
That's why they need those safe spaces.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
We'll be back.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
You're listening to American Ground Radio.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Poler, Lewis Sarval.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
President Trump wouldn't have abandoned me for nine months.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
No, no, he wouldn't have. No, he wouldn't do that.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
He knew I was lost in space. Oh yeah, if
I was lost in space.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yes, and not the nineteen fifties te.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
No, no, no, no. President Trump would come after me. Sure,
he'd come after me somehow. He'd send help. Yeah, he
he would rescue me.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
He'd get Ben Affleck and Bruce Willison and Skeet Rich
and they'd all be on their way.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
But you know President Biden, he's not so resourceful.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Well, he didn't want Elon Musk to get the credit.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
And what we're talking about here is Butcher Willmore.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Yeah, one of the two astronauts who got stranded on
the space station because the Boeing capsule sprung a leak.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
So he has been with NASA for twenty five years.
He's flown in four different spacecraft, he's been in space
four hundred and sixty four days over his career.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
It should have only been three hundred, and he's.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
A test pilot. Anyway, he's retiring, and he was one
of the astronauts that was on that mission that should
have lasted eight days but went on for nine months
because NASA couldn't figure away.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
No they could. Biden did not want Elon Musk to
get the credit. That's why they didn't rescue him.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
That's just shameful.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
It is shameful.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
But anyway, he's retiring, and so we salute you, sir.
We salute you for your service to this country.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
I mean you've gone up in space.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
Whoa When I say whoa ah, I mean wow.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Well, we were just talking about how JK. Rowling is
defending the right to free speech. She has used her
right to free speech very well. Here are some of
the words of wisdom from the Harry Potter author. If
you want to see the true measure of a man,
watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. She
also said it's impossible to live without failing at some
time at something unless you live so cautiously that you

(41:19):
might as well not have lived at all, in which
case you have failed by default. She also said, I
think you have a moral responsibility when you've given far
more than you need, to do wise things with it
and give it intelligently. And she said I would like
to be remembered as someone who did the best she
could with the talent she had.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
Absolutely, that's inspirational.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Isn't it. May your pursuit of happiness bring you joy,
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