August 22, 2025 • 42 mins
This is the full show for August 21, 2025. We ask the American Mamas why more people are believing that the earth is flat. We Dig Deep into the new Congressional map in Texas, how Democrats reacted, and how they may lose even more seats in the House. Plus, Melania Trump wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin encouraging him to stop the war, and that’s a Bright Spot. And we finish off with James Dobson, a positive influence to generations who will make you say, “Whoa!”
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American Ground Radio with Lewis r avalone and Stephen.
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Prokoo, this is American on Radium.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Stephen Parvard, Lewis. Okay, this is big news because this
week the United States Supreme Court, in a nail biting
five to four split, lifted a lower courts injunction gave
the Trump administration permission to slash almost a billion dollars
in NIH grants that were tied directly to diversity, equity
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and inclusion programs. Okay or ideology? Real quick?
Speaker 8 (01:28):
If we're doing National Institutes of Health, that's the NIH.
Why are we focused on superficial things like skill color, yes,
than the health of individuals?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Why? Why? Why? Are we doing DEI Well, that's what
President Trump was at asking the court is why are
we Why are these grants that are funding ideological social
engineering experiments. They're not they're not scientific research. Well, and
they're not great.
Speaker 8 (01:58):
You know, there's there's this old phrase, you know, the
Holy Roman Empire was not Holy Roman or an empire. Diversity.
Equity inclusion is not diverse. It's not equitable, and it
doesn't include people. It excludes people. It it's it's not diverse.
It's only focused on people that meet certain criteria.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
I know.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
But this these grants that from the federal government, they
weren't they weren't developing, they weren't four, they weren't allocated
for developing cures for alzheimer, Alzheimer's or HIV. They were
political statements that were dressed up as science. So the
NIH under the Trump administration identified those problems. Now this
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is the I guess the renewed or the re established
NIH Okay, under the Trump administration, they identified those projects
that served ideological agendas like gendered identity theory, ideological diversity training,
wokeness and if those programs obviously had absolutely zero to
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do with the's mission to cure diseases and advance human health,
regardless of race, regardless of it got put on the
chopping block, and the funding got held good got frozen
by the Trump administration. Good because it's a waste of money.
It's absolutely waste matter.
Speaker 8 (03:14):
It's those diversity, equity and inclusion projects for the Department
of Health will not make a single person healthier. So
why are we spending that money?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Well, that's a great question. But the plaintiffs in this
case that went before the Supreme Court included sixteen Democrat
led states and public health groups. They all cried about,
you know, they're cutting all of these cuts are going
to cost incalculable lives. Well, if you can't calculate it,
how do we know? See, I mean that's what If
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you're saying it's incalculable, then it means it can't be calculated.
If we can't calculate how many people are impacted, how
do you know how many people are impacted? Well a
judge apparently made that decision, this judge William Young, who's
a Reagan appointee, and he called all of these cuts
and what dollars that the Trump administration was trying to
Freeze as breath taking Lee, arbitrary and capricious. He even
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accused the Trump administration of racial and LGBTQ plus discrimination.
Now the Supreme Court, the majority of the United States
Supreme Court this week though, said enough okay. They said
these decisions fall under executive discretion and litigation should have
been filed in the court of Federal Claims, not in
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some activist federal district court. So my question, though, is
it's a five to four decision. Why was this a
six to three decision because Chief Justice John Roberts sided
with the liberals. M now even Amy Cony Barrett. Yeah,
as as as she has some pretty conservative bona fide.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Most of the time, she's pretty conservative, but there's sometimes
when she has been.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
On the wrong side. She certainly has. And of course
President Trump I think expected her, you know, let's be straight,
let's just be straight and honest about this when he
appointed her. I think he expected her to be a
reliable conservative anchor. Yes, and she hasn't really been that,
but she stood with the conservatives on this issue.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
It is concerning that the two most reliably conservative members
of the Supreme Court are Alito and Thomas, and they
are the two oldest members of the Supreme Court. That
is concerning that Gorsich, that Kavanaugh, and that amy Cony
Barrett have not been They haven't been paying attention to
what Thomas and Alito are saying enough that all of
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them have strayed at times from conservative principles, from textual principles,
from constitutional underpinnings.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Absolutely, but in this case, and I think the precedent
is pretty big. I mean, this is a big deal
of this decision, because if we let judges hold the
purse strings every time someone yells discrimination, that pulls at
the heartstrings. But there's no legal standing. I mean, where
will we be in this country.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Well, it's not a matter if we let we let
judge is plural in this case. It's if we let
a single judge anywhere in the United States decide that
that judge knows more than the elected president of the
United States.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, we got a problem. That's not democracy, that's tyranny.
That is literally oligarchy, which is what Bernie Sanders has
been parading around the country denouncing. And yet I haven't
heard him denounce any of these ola garks from the
bench disrupting the normal function of the federal government. So
let's look at this just in dollars and cents. The NIH,
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the National Institutes of Health, spends forty eight billion dollars
a year. It funds hundreds of thousands of jobs it
I mean, and DEI projects siphon away dollars from disease research,
which is the mission of the National Institutes of Health. Right,
So every time you have DEAI project that is being
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funded with this forty eight billion dollars, either not hiring
the folks that you need to hire, right, or you're
not funding the research that is your mission, like preventative
medicine or cures. I mean, this is real money and
there are real consequences. If you've got to choose between
ideological window dressing and life saving research, where do you
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think most Americans would want you to be. We talked
about this on the show all the time.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
But governments should only do the things that only governments
can do. That if your government is spending any time
any money on something that is something someone else could do,
some business could do, or an individual could do, then
the government is by definition not spending that money on
something that only government can do, which means it's not
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getting done. If the NIH is the only government agency
or the only apparatus here to solve to fund these cures, and.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm not fully convinced of that.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
I think the government taking over healthcare research wasn't necessarily
a good thing. But let's just say the government's the
only one who can do that. Well, any dime you
are spending not doing that is a dime that means
that doesn't get done. So any dime the NIH to
spending not solving disease, not curing disease, not finding a
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new way to make life better, that means that life
doesn't get better, that disease doesn't get cured, that program
doesn't get solved.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Right, whether it's Alzheimer's or HIV, or mental health or cancer.
I mean, these are real issues affecting real Americans, and
yet there's a DEI centered experiment that has been taking
place in the NIH for far too many years. How
many people were made whole? How many people's diseases were
cured by teaching a bureaucrat that black people are victims
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and white people are racist? How many diseases were cured
by that life I'm gonna say it's zero, if anything,
Anybody who had to listen to that lesson probably got
a disease called Trump arrangement syndrome. Now this was a big,
big decision.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
Let's get to the top of the things you need
no before tomorrow. First thing, you need no form a
while and appeals court has tossed the nearly five hundred
million dollars penalty against Donald Trump. This stems from the
case tried in New York last year, when New York
Attorney General Letitia James clin that President Trump had defrauded
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multiple banks and insurance companies, even though those same businesses
testified at trial they weren't defrauded and wanted to continue
doing business with the Trump family. The New York Appellate
Division ruled that the fine was excessive and therefore violated
the Eighth Amendment. However, four of the five judges on
the appellate court ruled that James's prosecution of Trump in
the first place was right and appropriate.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
But she's still going after him, of course she is.
She's still talking about out how he's guilty.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
Well, if anybody's guilty, she needs to go look at
her mortgage forms. Second thing you need to know before
tomorrow a political ally of New York Mayor Eric Adams,
has been accused of trying to bribe a reporter for
more positive coverage of the mayor. Winnie Greco has been
suspended from the Adams campaign after she gave money to
a reporter for the city. The money was hidden in
a potato chip bag Greco gave to reporter Katie Honan.
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Honan tried to give the money back, but Greco refused
to take it back. Gregorl's attorney says it was just
a misunderstanding, saying quote in the Chinese culture, money is
often given to others in a gesture of friendship and gratitude.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
It's not bright, It's a cultural exchange. This champaign get
more bizarre than it already is. I know it will be.
In New York.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Your choices are a communist, anti Semite, a mayor who
was surrounded by corruption, a governor who issued death sentences
to anybody who was over the age of sixty five,
I who got COVID, and the only Republican in the race,
who are you voting for? And the third thing you
do know before to morow, Republican Congressman Chip Roy is
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running for Attorney General in Texas. Roy has developed a
reputation as one of the most conservative members of Congress.
In a statement announcing his run, Roy said, no more
soils funded judges and district attorneys putting criminals on our streets.
No more judge made mandates that Texasans pay for illegal
in our public schools. No more communities built on Shurrea law.
Congressman Roy previously worked as a top deputy for current
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Texas Attorney General Kim Paxton, later turned against Paxton on
some issues. Paxxon is running for US Senate against current
Senator John Cornyn, creating an open race for attorney general.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well, they'll certainly be continuity in the fact that Chip Roy,
if he is elected Attorney General of Texas, there'll be
a lot of continuity between him and Ken Paxident. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Look, Cornyn is an outspoken guy. He's a very conservative guy,
and he's the biggest name now in the race.
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American Ground Radio with Lewis r Avaloni and Stephen Parr.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Welcome back to.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
American Ground Radio. Stephen Parv Lewis are Avaloni. I think
sometimes we yearn for nostalgi. I don't know themes or
the way folks used to be, the way business used
to be done, the way sure parents used to parent,
the way children used to be respectful. Yeah, why is that?
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Why do we clean?
Speaker 9 (13:52):
You know?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Because a lot of folks say, well, you know, there's
a lot of bad things in the past. You know,
there was slavery. I mean, you know, do you want
to clean to not my lifetime, there hasn't been slavery
in this time. What do you think? Why do you
think we we reminisced so much? You know, you know
what I'm saying. Like, for example, I mean because the
Coca Cola is a great example going back. You know,
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we liked the way coke tasted, we liked everything about coke,
and and the folks a Coca Cola came up with
the idea, we're going to change all of that, and
we didn't like that. We didn't like that as a country.
Well because the new taste was awful, okay, but but
there was something nostalgic, right, nostalgic because the new one
was crap, like like what's illustrated for example, having dudes
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on there on the cover of the swimsuit edition. I
mean there's just something wrong with that. Yeah, yeah, that's
not dude. Okay, I know that's kind of perverted. But
my point is, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
What no you've made You've made the point that sometimes
we're nostalgic because things back then didn't suck like they
do sometimes now.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Okay, so so and why am I I don't eat it?
Cracker Barrel a lot, all right? I mean it's very infrequent,
but I like Cracker Barrel. But there's They've had the
same logo right for forty seven years, and now this
woke CEO of Cracker Barrel has decided to do away
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with that. Oh, a new logo, just a complete they
get rid of. There was a guy. It was an
image the logo of well, it's a man sitting on
a chair leaning against a barrel, right, and it told
a story. Sure, it evoked a time of hospitality, of
simpler days of tradition. And now the guy is gone,
(15:42):
the guy, the rocking chair, the barrel. It's just the
only thing left is the name Cracker Barrel. And my
question is, why do I give a rip about that?
Why should anyone give a rip about that?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
I think it's more offensive that we took the Indian
off the land the lake's butter, because it's like we
took the Indian and Jemima. We sent the Indian away
and we kept the land. I'm like that's that's kind
of the whole complaint of Native America.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Just saying sometimes when we think about, you know, yesteryear,
I mean, we're doing more than just I mean, but.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
It depends upon what you're doing, what you're reminiscing about,
and why the change was made. We got a question
for American mama's dear mama's how long until you overstay
you're welcome?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Well, let's ask America and Mama's.
Speaker 10 (16:30):
Mama mama enjoying us? Now?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Are American mama's Terneedeville and Kimberly Burlison. Oh so sad
you guys got to go. Thank you so much for
enjoyed it.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Okay, So how long until you've overstayed your and y'all
could never overstay?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You're welcome here on American Ground Radio. We love you guys.
Speaker 11 (16:59):
Oh, thank goodness too. This is like an actual topic
in our house right now. Really, yes, this is a topic.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You have a house guest.
Speaker 11 (17:05):
Well, when people came, I'm like, please just stay for
a long weekend. Please, Okay, I just want a long weekend.
Three days, three three days maybe four three four tops.
That's it, you know, because the rule of thumb is
you want people to be, you know, sad that you're
leaving and wishing you had stay longer. Sure, and not
relieve that you're leaving. Okay, So we're going to Portland.
(17:27):
And my husband's brother lives in Portland. Okay, it's going
to be his birthday. So my husband, because it's his brother,
he wants to go for a week, all right, And
I said, we're not doing that. I said, I won't go,
and he's like, you won't go, and I'm like, not
if you're going for a week. I said, I'll go
for a long weekend. But that's as long as I'm
going because but this is my brother. I said, no,
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I'm telling you. His wife doesn't want us there for
more than a long weekend, trust me.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Okay, but is it possible that other people have a
different determination.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It's not.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
What is not possible, It's not possible.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
It's not possible.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
Well, it depends on if it's family or if it's friends. Okay,
let's just say it like that. Like I remember, and
this is probably why when we were growing up, if
we were allowed to spend the night with somebody, they
would take us at five the night with Friday night
and they would pick us up by ten Saturday morning.
Speaker 11 (18:20):
And am, yeah, that was it, that was it, okay.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
And I always like, oh, we were you know, we
were just getting started and Nope, that's the deal. Well
then you become a parent and you're like, what a
gift that was, because usually if a kid stays, it
will be all day and then they might stay that
night another night on the weekends. I had this happen
all the time. But I also remember we were when
we lived in Misissippi. I was in seventh grade, you
were in the eighth grade. Raleigh Walker and his family
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came and stayed with us. They were coming in and
they were going on to Florida for the beach. Well,
they got there the night before. Mom put on a
big meal. We had a great time. We had fun
with the kids, and then we all had big palettes
on the floor in the living room. The next morning
we up, they were gone, and I was like, oh wait,
we're Scott Matt and where's everybody. My dad said, that's
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the way to do it.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
That's the way to do it.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
So that's what we did. If we needed a landover.
You know, it's like you don't want them to feel
like they have to get up and make big breakfast
and they can say, oh, we wish I would.
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Have stayed the best guests.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
But inside it's like when when Kimberly and I went
to New York just for a visit. We stayed with
our cousin Rachel, and how many days, like three or four,
I don't know, and we were never there. We we
we had a mission first of all, so we were
there on a mission. But we saw every single site
everything we wanted to see. And Rachel's husband was like,
they're the best guests we have ever had. We weren't there.
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We took them up.
Speaker 11 (19:46):
Yeah, then we were. We were went to bed that
we were not there. They're working too, Yeah, we're trying
to stay out of the way.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
And we were enjoying ourselves too. So that was a
free you know, free board for the time that we
were there. So we didn't want to and we didn't
want to interfere in their time. But I just think
that if you leave, like Kimberly said, it's kind of
like at a party, if you leave the party at
a place where people are like, oh man, I wish
they didn't have to leave so early. That was so fun.
We got to have them back rather than be the
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person where they're flicking the light on and off, like, hold,
let's everybody, Hey, we got to go to bed. You know,
there's just you have to be.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
Aware of you remember me sharing that friend I used
to have that I dropped like a sand bag. Remember
that one worst guess I ever had. So when we
lived in Utah, you would not believe the number of
people that want to come to your home.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Because they want to ski.
Speaker 11 (20:33):
Sure, so I'm talking weeks at a time, We're having
constant guests. We were not wealthy, we were just in
our twenties, you.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
Know, just flight to the baby.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So that's a lot.
Speaker 11 (20:43):
That's very costly to have people come to your home
for a week at a time, all the time in
the winter. And to me, I thought if people would
come just for a long weekend. But then say, I know,
you got a job to do, You got work to do,
you do your thing. We just needed a place to
stay all day every day. I can do that. But
can they want you to entertain them? Yeah no, no,
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only certain certain people. But that one brand a drop
like a sandbag, were complained to me. You fit into
people's lifestyle. If they wake up, then you wake up
fit into their lifestyle.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Right, No, I get that absolutely, and I try and
do that when I when I travel somewhere new, I
want to fit into the culture that's that's there. And
households have their own cultures. So yeah, you do want
to try and fit in. And if you don't like
their culture, don't stay there.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
Next time exactly for five days exactly. So when you
and Wendy come to my house weekend, tops.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I'm delightful.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
People want me stay way past everyone everyone else going.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
They're like that guy. Okay, uh well, we're out of time.
If you'd like to ask our American Mama's a question,
good to our website American ground Radio.
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Dot com slash Mama's and click on the ass the
Mama's button Terry dot av Kimberly Brothers and thank you
so much and coming up next to your on American Ground Radio.
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Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen Parmer, Louis sar Avaloni.
So apparently even CNN is willing to admit that crime statistics,
as President JD. Vance pointed out, uh huh, are woefully
underreported nationwide, not just in Washington, d C. Because you know,
of course, this whole discussion about crime in Washington, d C.
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And President wanting to basically, you know, take over the
city government or the law enforcement of the nation's capital.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
And the left is like, oh, well, the crime's been
going down, it's not that bad. But the truth is
that they've been there's been some allegations actually in d C,
that they've been calling some homicides in reports they've they've
labeled them as accidental deaths when they weren't accidental, and
they did that with the allegations that that's being done
for statistical reasons. But moreover, there are many cities in
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the country that are no longer reporting to the FBI's
crime database, and so it looks like crime's gone down
simply because you've got cities in a lot of states
that aren't reporting crime at all. Well, and let's not
make any let's be very clear about this. What we're
really talking about are Democrat led cities that manipulate the
data to make it seem like that their leftist policies
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of having a revolving door at the prison somehow works
that you're rehabilitating folks. And look, I'm all for rehabilitation.
I am too want to reduce recidivism, certainly in our jail.
I don't want anyone to have to spend their life
in jail. But if you can't spend your life in
society without trampling on the rights of other people, their
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rights to life, their rights to liberty, their rights to
pursue their happiness, if you can't behave in society like
a civilized person, then you don't belong in society.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
But why is it that it's always the Democrats that
are lying to their own constituents, to the American people.
Why do democrats why do those on the left think
they are the smartest people in the room. If they
can talk over you, if they can silence you, if
they can you know, basically, I mean they feel like
they've won the art.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Well, it's because they actually had to listen to the
other side of the argument. Their argument would fall apart
time and time again.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
If you actually have to listen to the other side
of the art. It's condescending the way that they treat
I mean, it's like they do things and then they're like, oh,
no one's ever gonna notice. No, we're gonna notice. Well,
we're gonna notice. We're dumb.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
I think the problem is they they don't notice the
flaws in their own arguments, because we say on the
show all the time, if you if your arguments don't
stand up to scrutiny, then you don't have good ideas.
And the Democrat Party refuses to allow their ideas to
be scrutinized.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Well.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
The fact that crime statistics are underreported all across the
country makes it even more critical that we have a
president in the Oval office who understands the value of
law and order. Led Stigny.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Going down down, So this week the Texas House passed
a new congressional map that could give Republicans in Texas
five extra seats in the House of Representatives, which leads
to the question for the Democrat Party.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
What in the world did you think you would actually accomplish.
The Left has been playing games and stunts and acting
like their victims while breaking laws, and they've been losing
the support of the American people while they were at it.
To try and stop something that was inevitable, Let's start
with the first stunt. When Texas Governor Greg Abbott first
called for a special session for redissecting and funding flood relief,
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the majority of Democrats in the Texas House fled the state,
thirty six of them, mostly to Illinois and New York.
They held press conferences denouncing jerrymandering, but they did it
in states that are heavily jerry mannered in favor of Democrats.
Both Illinois and New York rigged their maps earlier this
decade to eliminate as many Republican seats in those states
as possible. But you didn't see Republicans in Illinois or
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Republicans in New York flee to Texas or Florida in
a misguided effort to grab to stop blatant power grab.
As a result of the Democrats leaving the state of Texas,
they are now at risk of having their seats in
the Texas House being taken away for abandoning their post.
They could also face criminal charges. All of them face
fifty face five thousand dollars in fines for the ten
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days that they were out of the state, and if
anyone gives them money to pay those fines, they could
be charged with felony bribery. This week, after they finally returned,
each Democrat had to get a hall passed to be
able to leave the Capitol building. I'm not kidding about that.
They had to be escorted wherever they went by a
Texas State trooper who had the power to arrest them
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and return them to the Capitol if they didn't return
to the Capitol on their own on time.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
But see, you know their walk out, it's they thought
it was symbolic. They thought they were making a point.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
No, they thought they were. They thought they were doing
something more than that, just to make a point that
there's other ways to make a point. They thought, they said,
we're gonna stop this.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
But it is antithetical to democracy what they did. Absolutely,
because the legislature halted, not because of a legitimate dispute,
but because a faction decided that their absence was more
powerful than debate.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
They used extra democratic means, which means they weren't operating
within the democratic process. That's not saving democracy. You can't
save democracy by breaking it.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Now.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
To protest the fact that they now have to be
escorted around Texas by state troopers who have the power
and authority to arrest them at will, a few Democrats
simply refused to leave the Capitol. Instead, they slept on
the House floor overnight filming and broadcasting the stunt online.
And while they were doing that, they used the broadcast
to raise money for the Democrat Party. That is a
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felony in the state of Texas. You cannot use the
House floor for political fundraising purposes. They may be charged
in that crime. One of the Democrats then went to
the bathroom. She joined a live conference call from the
bathroom of the Capitol with Democrats trying to raise money
from across the country. That too, was a felony because
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she was still in the Capitol doing it. And the
media doesn't hold them accountable.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
No, so they've committed multiple crimes that could cost them.
We have to hold them accounted. That's what we're doing.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
So they committed multiple crimes that could cost them their
seats in the House, will cost them time and money
to defend, and earned them the embarrassment of having to
be escorted everywhere they went by armed law enforcement officers.
And in the end, all they were able to do
was delay the inevitable by two weeks. That's brain dead politics,
right there? Was it worth it?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
No? Of course not. They held government hostage. But the
losers here, I mean they're the politicians, but Democrat Party
is the biggest loser. But it's also the people because
you know, it's that flood relief in Texas wasponed by
two weeks? What about tax relief for small businesses, for
young families, what about the small businesses waiting on clarity
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for property valuations? I mean, every Texan who depends on
the legislature for action, they got left behind here. And
don't miss the hypocrisy here. These are the same Democrats
that preach endlessly, endlessly about protecting democracy. Yet when the
democratic process didn't go their way, they broke democracy. They
abandoned it.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
Not to be outdone, California's governor and presidential want to be,
Gavin Newsom, declared that California would jerrymander their map to
take away five Republican seats in retaliation for texas As redistrict.
There's a couple of problems. California's map is already heavily jerrymandered.
It's currently more gerrymandered than Texas's new one will be,
so when Newsom published his map, it's likely they're only
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able to pick up four Democrat seats, not five. What's more,
his legislature can't just pass that map. California's constitution requires
a committee to make the maps, which means the voters
would have to approve a change to the constitution before
they can adopt this map, and the polls show voters
in Californias.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Don't want to do that.
Speaker 8 (30:59):
But because Newsom is putting out an even more gerry
mannered map, more red states are now making moves to
redistrict as well. Missouri's planning a special session for redistricting,
picking up one more seat for Republicans. Louisiana's House is
making plans for a special session this fall that could
mean one more Republican seat. Indiana is considering redistricting, and
there's talk of Florida doing redistricting.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
In a special session as well. So Newsom.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
If he had just stayed out of it, those other
red states likely wouldn't be planning on redistricting. Instead of
losing five seats, the Democrats could now lose as many
as ten before the year's over.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
This is part of why the Democrat Party is losing
support across the country. They're much more interested in pulling
stunts and breaking laws to gain attention than they are
doing something that can actually help people. And if we
let politicians run away every time they don't like a vote,
they don't like a vote, I should say we don't
have a democracy, we have chaos. It's the fourth time
Texas Democrats have fled the state to stop litigator legislation
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they don't like, and it's the fourth time they've failed.
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Speaker 3 (33:11):
Welcome back to American Ground Radium. Stephen Parr with Lewis
sar Evaloni. I am the son of an Italian immigrant,
so at we're not anti immigrant on this show. You're
also the grandson of an Italian m absolutely. And here's
a thing. When we talk about immigrants to this country, right,
how they need to be legal. It's not because we're
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discriminating or otherwise being racist against brown skinned folks or
folks that aren't. I don't know. However, the left wants
to couch it that if you're against immigration, illegal immigration,
that you must be racist.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
No, I don't care what country you come from. You
could be from Canada. I don't want you sneaking into
the US. You could be from Ireland. Great people in Ireland.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I don't want you sneaking into the US because it's
about the law, it's not about the person. So I
read this story in the New York Times, I was like, yeah,
this is a this is good news. Nearly four hundred
thousand illegal immigrants are due to be shipped back or
to be returned to their home country this year from
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the United States under the Trump administration. Of course, this
is that's the forceful deportation.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
It's going to be more than that when you start
factoring in the self deportation we've already sent there's already
been one point six million illegal immigrants who have left
the country. Well, not only that, but consider this, and
that is that we are also discouraging folks are coming
across the border. So you've got you've stemmed the tide
(34:43):
of folks coming illegally across the border. The border patrol
is able to do its job, right, even painting the
border wall black black paint, because black paint gets hotter, right, right,
because it's absorbs it absorbs the heat, so it's then
harder to climb that border wall. Look, you know how
many illegal immigrants have been allowed into the country in
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the last three months zero, we've been getting rids of
hundreds of thousands, and when you factor in self deportations again,
you're like at half a million just in the last
three months and zero coming in. So that's all that
traffic is going out.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
And of course, the Biden administration was quick to tell
us during you know, their reign over this country that
only if Congress would give them more money could they
actually get control over this broken immigration system. I'm not
kidding around, Jack. We just we gotta have new laws.
And you know, for folks who say it's not compassionate,
how about compassion compassionate to deport folks that are illegally here.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
How about compassion for the people who've had their family
members killed. How about that the family members of the
three people on that highway in Florida who were driving
when the illegal immigrant made that illegal U turn and
killed three people on the highway. How about the compassion
for those people and their family.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
How about compassion for the American worker who deserves fairwea
how about the taxpayers that should not be bled dry
funding benefits for those who broke our laws. And by
the way, I don't care what color the family is
of the people who died on that highway. That doesn't matter.
The fact is they were Americans and they didn't deserve that.
Let's get to a bright spot.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I'm all right getting good grades.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
First, Lady Milania Trump wrote a letter to Russian President
Vladimir Putin last week encouraging him to stop the war
with Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
That letter was a bright spot. Have you read it?
Speaker 4 (36:36):
No?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I have not.
Speaker 8 (36:37):
Here it is, every child shares the same quiet dreams
in their heart, whether born randomly into a nation's rustic
countryside or a magnificent city center. They dream of love, possibility,
and safety from danger. As parents, it is our duty
to nurture the next generation's hope. As leaders, the responsibility
to sustain our children extends beyond the comfort of a few. Undeniably,
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we must strive to pay at a dignity filled world
for all, so that every soul may wake to peace,
and so that the future itself is perfectly guarded. A
simple yet profound concept, mister Putin, as I'm sure you agree,
is that each generation's descendants begin their lives with a
purity and in a sense which stands above geography, government
and ideology. Yet in today's world, some children are forced
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to carry a quiet laughter, untouched by the darkness around them,
a silent defiance against the forces that can potentially claim
their future. Mister Putin, you can single handedly restore their
melodic laughter. In protecting the innocence of these children, you
will do more than serve Russia alone. You will serve
humanity itself. Such a bold idea transcends all human division.
And you, mister Putin, are fit to implement this vision
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with the stroke of the pen today it is time.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Okay, And I think it's I do believe that's what's
in her heart. Absolutely, But make no mistake, this is
part of Trump's negotiation. And you know, I won't say
whole ersion. There's no persuasion of Putin to do what
is right. There's no way Malania sends this without Donald
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Trump saying yeah, go ahead and do that. Yes. But
but I think this was her idea. I think she
wanted to do it, and I think Trump I don't
think it's her idea. I think this is part of
a strategy. I think this is a way for Putin
to somehow, some way be viewed as a hero that
he is at because looking himself has to view that
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he feels.
Speaker 8 (38:31):
Better about her. But there's also depth, there's heart, there's
encouragement in that letter. We have very rarely had a
first lady with that kind of spirit in American history,
and I would put Malania Trump up there with Abigail
Adams as one of the very brightest first ladies in
American history. And you would think the Left would love
to have a first lady they could rally around one
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who speaks five I'm sorry, six languages, is literally a supermodel,
and it's perhaps the only person on the planet who
could have ever had any control over Donald Trump. But no,
the Left hates her because she's married to Donald Trump.
The View read that same letter, and the View called
her a hypocrite because her letter encourages peace. They were saying,
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Donald Trump's immigration's policies are destroying children here in America.
Now never mind that ICE has helped rescue tens of
thousands of children who are being sex trafficked here in
this country. Dude, the Democrats open border policies. Their criticisms
of Malaney aren't based on objective observation or reality. It's
based on hate.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
That's a shame. I think she appealed to the man's ego.
Of course, she offered him respect, even though he may
not deserve it. It was smart, it was strategic, and
it was heartfelt. I think she gave him what he
craved the most, and that is validation.
Speaker 8 (39:46):
And if he thinks of himself as saving children and
bringing up into the war, then this was a bright spot.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
On whoever gets the credit, We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
You are listening to American Ground rad.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen parver Lewis sar
avalon a what went on during the Biden administration becomes
more and more. I don't know if it's sad, tragic, comical, criminal, unconstitutional,
but okay, you know what a comms director does for
a member of Congress or for any elected official.
Speaker 8 (40:30):
Communicate with the press, social media, that type of story.
They they're the prestation.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Basically, you meet with the elected official, you determine, okay,
what is our policy issue or what is our policy
position on this issue, and how we're going to communicate
to that to the people. Well, now it has been
revealed that President Biden's comms director, Ian Sam's the man
supposedly hired to manage scandals and put out fires craft
(40:55):
the narrative. Yes, only spoke with Biden during the administration twice. Yep,
just two times. Not twice a week, No, not twice
a month, No, just twice period, not even twice a year.
I mean, imagine running the communications shop for the president
of the United States, a president obviously mired in investigations
(41:17):
and health questions and public gaffes, and your direct line
to your boss has been used as often, I don't know,
as a payphone in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (41:27):
Almost about half as often as leap years are used. Look,
this is why I said from the beginning, Joe Biden
wasn't in charge.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
It's a hollow president. It was a hollow presidence.
Speaker 8 (41:39):
It was all the the underlings. They just used power.
They usurped the power because Biden created a power vacuum
and all the power that those little minions were grabbing.
No one was there to say whoa.
Speaker 9 (41:52):
When I say whoa, ah, I mean whoa.
Speaker 8 (42:00):
Jimmy Lee, as his family called him, was born in Shreveport, Louisiana.
His father, his grandfather, and his great grandfather had all
been ministers. So it's no wonder that James once said
he learned to pray even before he learned to talk,
But rather than going into seminary himself, James studied psychology
and eventually earned his doctorate of psychology from usc becoming
a professor of pediatrics. But as the counterculture of the
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nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies began to take hold, James
felt he had to speak out. He began speaking on
the radio and making videos that were distributed around the country,
and in late nineteen seventies he founded Focus on the Family,
which became immedia empire, promoting Christian values across America. James
Dobson's messages influenced generations of Americans. James Dobson passed away
this week at the age of eighty nine.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
God bless him. May your pursuit of happiness bring you joy.
Because of you.
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American Ground Radio has heard in more markets than you
can shake a stick at, which in California is now
considered a microaggression against trees.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Why wrap the chainsaw, Fellas.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
We choose to go to the moon and do the
other thing, not because they are eay, but because they
are on.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
It is time for us to realize that we're too
great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
Speaker 6 (00:31):
I have a dream that one day this nation will
rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
American Ground Radio with Lewis r avalone and Stephen.
Speaker 7 (00:48):
Prokoo, this is American on Radium.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Stephen Parvard, Lewis. Okay, this is big news because this
week the United States Supreme Court, in a nail biting
five to four split, lifted a lower courts injunction gave
the Trump administration permission to slash almost a billion dollars
in NIH grants that were tied directly to diversity, equity
(01:23):
and inclusion programs. Okay or ideology? Real quick?
Speaker 8 (01:28):
If we're doing National Institutes of Health, that's the NIH.
Why are we focused on superficial things like skill color, yes,
than the health of individuals?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Why? Why? Why? Are we doing DEI Well, that's what
President Trump was at asking the court is why are
we Why are these grants that are funding ideological social
engineering experiments. They're not they're not scientific research. Well, and
they're not great.
Speaker 8 (01:58):
You know, there's there's this old phrase, you know, the
Holy Roman Empire was not Holy Roman or an empire. Diversity.
Equity inclusion is not diverse. It's not equitable, and it
doesn't include people. It excludes people. It it's it's not diverse.
It's only focused on people that meet certain criteria.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
I know.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
But this these grants that from the federal government, they
weren't they weren't developing, they weren't four, they weren't allocated
for developing cures for alzheimer, Alzheimer's or HIV. They were
political statements that were dressed up as science. So the
NIH under the Trump administration identified those problems. Now this
(02:38):
is the I guess the renewed or the re established
NIH Okay, under the Trump administration, they identified those projects
that served ideological agendas like gendered identity theory, ideological diversity training,
wokeness and if those programs obviously had absolutely zero to
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do with the's mission to cure diseases and advance human health,
regardless of race, regardless of it got put on the
chopping block, and the funding got held good got frozen
by the Trump administration. Good because it's a waste of money.
It's absolutely waste matter.
Speaker 8 (03:14):
It's those diversity, equity and inclusion projects for the Department
of Health will not make a single person healthier. So
why are we spending that money?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Well, that's a great question. But the plaintiffs in this
case that went before the Supreme Court included sixteen Democrat
led states and public health groups. They all cried about,
you know, they're cutting all of these cuts are going
to cost incalculable lives. Well, if you can't calculate it,
how do we know? See, I mean that's what If
(03:41):
you're saying it's incalculable, then it means it can't be calculated.
If we can't calculate how many people are impacted, how
do you know how many people are impacted? Well a
judge apparently made that decision, this judge William Young, who's
a Reagan appointee, and he called all of these cuts
and what dollars that the Trump administration was trying to
Freeze as breath taking Lee, arbitrary and capricious. He even
(04:05):
accused the Trump administration of racial and LGBTQ plus discrimination.
Now the Supreme Court, the majority of the United States
Supreme Court this week though, said enough okay. They said
these decisions fall under executive discretion and litigation should have
been filed in the court of Federal Claims, not in
(04:27):
some activist federal district court. So my question, though, is
it's a five to four decision. Why was this a
six to three decision because Chief Justice John Roberts sided
with the liberals. M now even Amy Cony Barrett. Yeah,
as as as she has some pretty conservative bona fide.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Most of the time, she's pretty conservative, but there's sometimes
when she has been.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
On the wrong side. She certainly has. And of course
President Trump I think expected her, you know, let's be straight,
let's just be straight and honest about this when he
appointed her. I think he expected her to be a
reliable conservative anchor. Yes, and she hasn't really been that,
but she stood with the conservatives on this issue.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
It is concerning that the two most reliably conservative members
of the Supreme Court are Alito and Thomas, and they
are the two oldest members of the Supreme Court. That
is concerning that Gorsich, that Kavanaugh, and that amy Cony
Barrett have not been They haven't been paying attention to
what Thomas and Alito are saying enough that all of
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them have strayed at times from conservative principles, from textual principles,
from constitutional underpinnings.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Absolutely, but in this case, and I think the precedent
is pretty big. I mean, this is a big deal
of this decision, because if we let judges hold the
purse strings every time someone yells discrimination, that pulls at
the heartstrings. But there's no legal standing. I mean, where
will we be in this country.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Well, it's not a matter if we let we let
judge is plural in this case. It's if we let
a single judge anywhere in the United States decide that
that judge knows more than the elected president of the
United States.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, we got a problem. That's not democracy, that's tyranny.
That is literally oligarchy, which is what Bernie Sanders has
been parading around the country denouncing. And yet I haven't
heard him denounce any of these ola garks from the
bench disrupting the normal function of the federal government. So
let's look at this just in dollars and cents. The NIH,
(06:40):
the National Institutes of Health, spends forty eight billion dollars
a year. It funds hundreds of thousands of jobs it
I mean, and DEI projects siphon away dollars from disease research,
which is the mission of the National Institutes of Health. Right,
So every time you have DEAI project that is being
(07:01):
funded with this forty eight billion dollars, either not hiring
the folks that you need to hire, right, or you're
not funding the research that is your mission, like preventative
medicine or cures. I mean, this is real money and
there are real consequences. If you've got to choose between
ideological window dressing and life saving research, where do you
(07:22):
think most Americans would want you to be. We talked
about this on the show all the time.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
But governments should only do the things that only governments
can do. That if your government is spending any time
any money on something that is something someone else could do,
some business could do, or an individual could do, then
the government is by definition not spending that money on
something that only government can do, which means it's not
(07:46):
getting done. If the NIH is the only government agency
or the only apparatus here to solve to fund these cures, and.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm not fully convinced of that.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
I think the government taking over healthcare research wasn't necessarily
a good thing. But let's just say the government's the
only one who can do that. Well, any dime you
are spending not doing that is a dime that means
that doesn't get done. So any dime the NIH to
spending not solving disease, not curing disease, not finding a
(08:21):
new way to make life better, that means that life
doesn't get better, that disease doesn't get cured, that program
doesn't get solved.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Right, whether it's Alzheimer's or HIV, or mental health or cancer.
I mean, these are real issues affecting real Americans, and
yet there's a DEI centered experiment that has been taking
place in the NIH for far too many years. How
many people were made whole? How many people's diseases were
cured by teaching a bureaucrat that black people are victims
(08:55):
and white people are racist? How many diseases were cured
by that life I'm gonna say it's zero, if anything,
Anybody who had to listen to that lesson probably got
a disease called Trump arrangement syndrome. Now this was a big,
big decision.
Speaker 8 (09:11):
Let's get to the top of the things you need
no before tomorrow. First thing, you need no form a
while and appeals court has tossed the nearly five hundred
million dollars penalty against Donald Trump. This stems from the
case tried in New York last year, when New York
Attorney General Letitia James clin that President Trump had defrauded
(09:34):
multiple banks and insurance companies, even though those same businesses
testified at trial they weren't defrauded and wanted to continue
doing business with the Trump family. The New York Appellate
Division ruled that the fine was excessive and therefore violated
the Eighth Amendment. However, four of the five judges on
the appellate court ruled that James's prosecution of Trump in
the first place was right and appropriate.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
But she's still going after him, of course she is.
She's still talking about out how he's guilty.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
Well, if anybody's guilty, she needs to go look at
her mortgage forms. Second thing you need to know before
tomorrow a political ally of New York Mayor Eric Adams,
has been accused of trying to bribe a reporter for
more positive coverage of the mayor. Winnie Greco has been
suspended from the Adams campaign after she gave money to
a reporter for the city. The money was hidden in
a potato chip bag Greco gave to reporter Katie Honan.
(10:25):
Honan tried to give the money back, but Greco refused
to take it back. Gregorl's attorney says it was just
a misunderstanding, saying quote in the Chinese culture, money is
often given to others in a gesture of friendship and gratitude.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
It's not bright, It's a cultural exchange. This champaign get
more bizarre than it already is. I know it will be.
In New York.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Your choices are a communist, anti Semite, a mayor who
was surrounded by corruption, a governor who issued death sentences
to anybody who was over the age of sixty five,
I who got COVID, and the only Republican in the race,
who are you voting for? And the third thing you
do know before to morow, Republican Congressman Chip Roy is
(11:08):
running for Attorney General in Texas. Roy has developed a
reputation as one of the most conservative members of Congress.
In a statement announcing his run, Roy said, no more
soils funded judges and district attorneys putting criminals on our streets.
No more judge made mandates that Texasans pay for illegal
in our public schools. No more communities built on Shurrea law.
Congressman Roy previously worked as a top deputy for current
(11:31):
Texas Attorney General Kim Paxton, later turned against Paxton on
some issues. Paxxon is running for US Senate against current
Senator John Cornyn, creating an open race for attorney general.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well, they'll certainly be continuity in the fact that Chip Roy,
if he is elected Attorney General of Texas, there'll be
a lot of continuity between him and Ken Paxident. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Look, Cornyn is an outspoken guy. He's a very conservative guy,
and he's the biggest name now in the race.
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Speaker 1 (13:26):
Welcome back to.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
American Ground Radio. Stephen Parv Lewis are Avaloni. I think
sometimes we yearn for nostalgi. I don't know themes or
the way folks used to be, the way business used
to be done, the way sure parents used to parent,
the way children used to be respectful. Yeah, why is that?
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Why do we clean?
Speaker 9 (13:52):
You know?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Because a lot of folks say, well, you know, there's
a lot of bad things in the past. You know,
there was slavery. I mean, you know, do you want
to clean to not my lifetime, there hasn't been slavery
in this time. What do you think? Why do you
think we we reminisced so much? You know, you know
what I'm saying. Like, for example, I mean because the
Coca Cola is a great example going back. You know,
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we liked the way coke tasted, we liked everything about coke,
and and the folks a Coca Cola came up with
the idea, we're going to change all of that, and
we didn't like that. We didn't like that as a country.
Well because the new taste was awful, okay, but but
there was something nostalgic, right, nostalgic because the new one
was crap, like like what's illustrated for example, having dudes
(14:36):
on there on the cover of the swimsuit edition. I
mean there's just something wrong with that. Yeah, yeah, that's
not dude. Okay, I know that's kind of perverted. But
my point is, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
What no you've made You've made the point that sometimes
we're nostalgic because things back then didn't suck like they
do sometimes now.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Okay, so so and why am I I don't eat it?
Cracker Barrel a lot, all right? I mean it's very infrequent,
but I like Cracker Barrel. But there's They've had the
same logo right for forty seven years, and now this
woke CEO of Cracker Barrel has decided to do away
(15:18):
with that. Oh, a new logo, just a complete they
get rid of. There was a guy. It was an
image the logo of well, it's a man sitting on
a chair leaning against a barrel, right, and it told
a story. Sure, it evoked a time of hospitality, of
simpler days of tradition. And now the guy is gone,
(15:42):
the guy, the rocking chair, the barrel. It's just the
only thing left is the name Cracker Barrel. And my
question is, why do I give a rip about that?
Why should anyone give a rip about that?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
I think it's more offensive that we took the Indian
off the land the lake's butter, because it's like we
took the Indian and Jemima. We sent the Indian away
and we kept the land. I'm like that's that's kind
of the whole complaint of Native America.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Just saying sometimes when we think about, you know, yesteryear,
I mean, we're doing more than just I mean, but.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
It depends upon what you're doing, what you're reminiscing about,
and why the change was made. We got a question
for American mama's dear mama's how long until you overstay
you're welcome?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Well, let's ask America and Mama's.
Speaker 10 (16:30):
Mama mama enjoying us? Now?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Are American mama's Terneedeville and Kimberly Burlison. Oh so sad
you guys got to go. Thank you so much for
enjoyed it.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Okay, So how long until you've overstayed your and y'all
could never overstay?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You're welcome here on American Ground Radio. We love you guys.
Speaker 11 (16:59):
Oh, thank goodness too. This is like an actual topic
in our house right now. Really, yes, this is a topic.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
You have a house guest.
Speaker 11 (17:05):
Well, when people came, I'm like, please just stay for
a long weekend. Please, Okay, I just want a long weekend.
Three days, three three days maybe four three four tops.
That's it, you know, because the rule of thumb is
you want people to be, you know, sad that you're
leaving and wishing you had stay longer. Sure, and not
relieve that you're leaving. Okay, So we're going to Portland.
(17:27):
And my husband's brother lives in Portland. Okay, it's going
to be his birthday. So my husband, because it's his brother,
he wants to go for a week, all right, And
I said, we're not doing that. I said, I won't go,
and he's like, you won't go, and I'm like, not
if you're going for a week. I said, I'll go
for a long weekend. But that's as long as I'm
going because but this is my brother. I said, no,
(17:48):
I'm telling you. His wife doesn't want us there for
more than a long weekend, trust me.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Okay, but is it possible that other people have a
different determination.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It's not.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
What is not possible, It's not possible.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
It's not possible.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
Well, it depends on if it's family or if it's friends. Okay,
let's just say it like that. Like I remember, and
this is probably why when we were growing up, if
we were allowed to spend the night with somebody, they
would take us at five the night with Friday night
and they would pick us up by ten Saturday morning.
Speaker 11 (18:20):
And am, yeah, that was it, that was it, okay.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
And I always like, oh, we were you know, we
were just getting started and Nope, that's the deal. Well
then you become a parent and you're like, what a
gift that was, because usually if a kid stays, it
will be all day and then they might stay that
night another night on the weekends. I had this happen
all the time. But I also remember we were when
we lived in Misissippi. I was in seventh grade, you
were in the eighth grade. Raleigh Walker and his family
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came and stayed with us. They were coming in and
they were going on to Florida for the beach. Well,
they got there the night before. Mom put on a
big meal. We had a great time. We had fun
with the kids, and then we all had big palettes
on the floor in the living room. The next morning
we up, they were gone, and I was like, oh wait,
we're Scott Matt and where's everybody. My dad said, that's
(19:08):
the way to do it.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
That's the way to do it.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
So that's what we did. If we needed a landover.
You know, it's like you don't want them to feel
like they have to get up and make big breakfast
and they can say, oh, we wish I would.
Speaker 11 (19:19):
Have stayed the best guests.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
But inside it's like when when Kimberly and I went
to New York just for a visit. We stayed with
our cousin Rachel, and how many days, like three or four,
I don't know, and we were never there. We we
we had a mission first of all, so we were
there on a mission. But we saw every single site
everything we wanted to see. And Rachel's husband was like,
they're the best guests we have ever had. We weren't there.
(19:44):
We took them up.
Speaker 11 (19:46):
Yeah, then we were. We were went to bed that
we were not there. They're working too, Yeah, we're trying
to stay out of the way.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
And we were enjoying ourselves too. So that was a
free you know, free board for the time that we
were there. So we didn't want to and we didn't
want to interfere in their time. But I just think
that if you leave, like Kimberly said, it's kind of
like at a party, if you leave the party at
a place where people are like, oh man, I wish
they didn't have to leave so early. That was so fun.
We got to have them back rather than be the
(20:13):
person where they're flicking the light on and off, like, hold,
let's everybody, Hey, we got to go to bed. You know,
there's just you have to be.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
Aware of you remember me sharing that friend I used
to have that I dropped like a sand bag. Remember
that one worst guess I ever had. So when we
lived in Utah, you would not believe the number of
people that want to come to your home.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Because they want to ski.
Speaker 11 (20:33):
Sure, so I'm talking weeks at a time, We're having
constant guests. We were not wealthy, we were just in
our twenties, you.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
Know, just flight to the baby.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So that's a lot.
Speaker 11 (20:43):
That's very costly to have people come to your home
for a week at a time, all the time in
the winter. And to me, I thought if people would
come just for a long weekend. But then say, I know,
you got a job to do, You got work to do,
you do your thing. We just needed a place to
stay all day every day. I can do that. But
can they want you to entertain them? Yeah no, no,
(21:07):
only certain certain people. But that one brand a drop
like a sandbag, were complained to me. You fit into
people's lifestyle. If they wake up, then you wake up
fit into their lifestyle.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Right, No, I get that absolutely, and I try and
do that when I when I travel somewhere new, I
want to fit into the culture that's that's there. And
households have their own cultures. So yeah, you do want
to try and fit in. And if you don't like
their culture, don't stay there.
Speaker 11 (21:35):
Next time exactly for five days exactly. So when you
and Wendy come to my house weekend, tops.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I'm delightful.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
People want me stay way past everyone everyone else going.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
They're like that guy. Okay, uh well, we're out of time.
If you'd like to ask our American Mama's a question,
good to our website American ground Radio.
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Dot com slash Mama's and click on the ass the
Mama's button Terry dot av Kimberly Brothers and thank you
so much and coming up next to your on American Ground Radio.
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Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen Parmer, Louis sar Avaloni.
So apparently even CNN is willing to admit that crime statistics,
as President JD. Vance pointed out, uh huh, are woefully
underreported nationwide, not just in Washington, d C. Because you know,
of course, this whole discussion about crime in Washington, d C.
(23:18):
And President wanting to basically, you know, take over the
city government or the law enforcement of the nation's capital.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
And the left is like, oh, well, the crime's been
going down, it's not that bad. But the truth is
that they've been there's been some allegations actually in d C,
that they've been calling some homicides in reports they've they've
labeled them as accidental deaths when they weren't accidental, and
they did that with the allegations that that's being done
for statistical reasons. But moreover, there are many cities in
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the country that are no longer reporting to the FBI's
crime database, and so it looks like crime's gone down
simply because you've got cities in a lot of states
that aren't reporting crime at all. Well, and let's not
make any let's be very clear about this. What we're
really talking about are Democrat led cities that manipulate the
data to make it seem like that their leftist policies
(24:08):
of having a revolving door at the prison somehow works
that you're rehabilitating folks. And look, I'm all for rehabilitation.
I am too want to reduce recidivism, certainly in our jail.
I don't want anyone to have to spend their life
in jail. But if you can't spend your life in
society without trampling on the rights of other people, their
(24:29):
rights to life, their rights to liberty, their rights to
pursue their happiness, if you can't behave in society like
a civilized person, then you don't belong in society.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
But why is it that it's always the Democrats that
are lying to their own constituents, to the American people.
Why do democrats why do those on the left think
they are the smartest people in the room. If they
can talk over you, if they can silence you, if
they can you know, basically, I mean they feel like
they've won the art.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Well, it's because they actually had to listen to the
other side of the argument. Their argument would fall apart
time and time again.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
If you actually have to listen to the other side
of the art. It's condescending the way that they treat
I mean, it's like they do things and then they're like, oh,
no one's ever gonna notice. No, we're gonna notice. Well,
we're gonna notice. We're dumb.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
I think the problem is they they don't notice the
flaws in their own arguments, because we say on the
show all the time, if you if your arguments don't
stand up to scrutiny, then you don't have good ideas.
And the Democrat Party refuses to allow their ideas to
be scrutinized.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Well.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
The fact that crime statistics are underreported all across the
country makes it even more critical that we have a
president in the Oval office who understands the value of
law and order. Led Stigny.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Going down down, So this week the Texas House passed
a new congressional map that could give Republicans in Texas
five extra seats in the House of Representatives, which leads
to the question for the Democrat Party.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
What in the world did you think you would actually accomplish.
The Left has been playing games and stunts and acting
like their victims while breaking laws, and they've been losing
the support of the American people while they were at it.
To try and stop something that was inevitable, Let's start
with the first stunt. When Texas Governor Greg Abbott first
called for a special session for redissecting and funding flood relief,
(26:31):
the majority of Democrats in the Texas House fled the state,
thirty six of them, mostly to Illinois and New York.
They held press conferences denouncing jerrymandering, but they did it
in states that are heavily jerry mannered in favor of Democrats.
Both Illinois and New York rigged their maps earlier this
decade to eliminate as many Republican seats in those states
as possible. But you didn't see Republicans in Illinois or
(26:53):
Republicans in New York flee to Texas or Florida in
a misguided effort to grab to stop blatant power grab.
As a result of the Democrats leaving the state of Texas,
they are now at risk of having their seats in
the Texas House being taken away for abandoning their post.
They could also face criminal charges. All of them face
fifty face five thousand dollars in fines for the ten
(27:16):
days that they were out of the state, and if
anyone gives them money to pay those fines, they could
be charged with felony bribery. This week, after they finally returned,
each Democrat had to get a hall passed to be
able to leave the Capitol building. I'm not kidding about that.
They had to be escorted wherever they went by a
Texas State trooper who had the power to arrest them
(27:38):
and return them to the Capitol if they didn't return
to the Capitol on their own on time.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
But see, you know their walk out, it's they thought
it was symbolic. They thought they were making a point.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
No, they thought they were. They thought they were doing
something more than that, just to make a point that
there's other ways to make a point. They thought, they said,
we're gonna stop this.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
But it is antithetical to democracy what they did. Absolutely,
because the legislature halted, not because of a legitimate dispute,
but because a faction decided that their absence was more
powerful than debate.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
They used extra democratic means, which means they weren't operating
within the democratic process. That's not saving democracy. You can't
save democracy by breaking it.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Now.
Speaker 8 (28:24):
To protest the fact that they now have to be
escorted around Texas by state troopers who have the power
and authority to arrest them at will, a few Democrats
simply refused to leave the Capitol. Instead, they slept on
the House floor overnight filming and broadcasting the stunt online.
And while they were doing that, they used the broadcast
to raise money for the Democrat Party. That is a
(28:47):
felony in the state of Texas. You cannot use the
House floor for political fundraising purposes. They may be charged
in that crime. One of the Democrats then went to
the bathroom. She joined a live conference call from the
bathroom of the Capitol with Democrats trying to raise money
from across the country. That too, was a felony because
(29:08):
she was still in the Capitol doing it. And the
media doesn't hold them accountable.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
No, so they've committed multiple crimes that could cost them.
We have to hold them accounted. That's what we're doing.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
So they committed multiple crimes that could cost them their
seats in the House, will cost them time and money
to defend, and earned them the embarrassment of having to
be escorted everywhere they went by armed law enforcement officers.
And in the end, all they were able to do
was delay the inevitable by two weeks. That's brain dead politics,
right there? Was it worth it?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
No? Of course not. They held government hostage. But the
losers here, I mean they're the politicians, but Democrat Party
is the biggest loser. But it's also the people because
you know, it's that flood relief in Texas wasponed by
two weeks? What about tax relief for small businesses, for
young families, what about the small businesses waiting on clarity
(30:01):
for property valuations? I mean, every Texan who depends on
the legislature for action, they got left behind here. And
don't miss the hypocrisy here. These are the same Democrats
that preach endlessly, endlessly about protecting democracy. Yet when the
democratic process didn't go their way, they broke democracy. They
abandoned it.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
Not to be outdone, California's governor and presidential want to be,
Gavin Newsom, declared that California would jerrymander their map to
take away five Republican seats in retaliation for texas As redistrict.
There's a couple of problems. California's map is already heavily jerrymandered.
It's currently more gerrymandered than Texas's new one will be,
so when Newsom published his map, it's likely they're only
(30:43):
able to pick up four Democrat seats, not five. What's more,
his legislature can't just pass that map. California's constitution requires
a committee to make the maps, which means the voters
would have to approve a change to the constitution before
they can adopt this map, and the polls show voters
in Californias.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Don't want to do that.
Speaker 8 (30:59):
But because Newsom is putting out an even more gerry
mannered map, more red states are now making moves to
redistrict as well. Missouri's planning a special session for redistricting,
picking up one more seat for Republicans. Louisiana's House is
making plans for a special session this fall that could
mean one more Republican seat. Indiana is considering redistricting, and
there's talk of Florida doing redistricting.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
In a special session as well. So Newsom.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
If he had just stayed out of it, those other
red states likely wouldn't be planning on redistricting. Instead of
losing five seats, the Democrats could now lose as many
as ten before the year's over.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
This is part of why the Democrat Party is losing
support across the country. They're much more interested in pulling
stunts and breaking laws to gain attention than they are
doing something that can actually help people. And if we
let politicians run away every time they don't like a vote,
they don't like a vote, I should say we don't
have a democracy, we have chaos. It's the fourth time
Texas Democrats have fled the state to stop litigator legislation
(31:55):
they don't like, and it's the fourth time they've failed.
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Speaker 3 (33:11):
Welcome back to American Ground Radium. Stephen Parr with Lewis
sar Evaloni. I am the son of an Italian immigrant,
so at we're not anti immigrant on this show. You're
also the grandson of an Italian m absolutely. And here's
a thing. When we talk about immigrants to this country, right,
how they need to be legal. It's not because we're
(33:32):
discriminating or otherwise being racist against brown skinned folks or
folks that aren't. I don't know. However, the left wants
to couch it that if you're against immigration, illegal immigration,
that you must be racist.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
No, I don't care what country you come from. You
could be from Canada. I don't want you sneaking into
the US. You could be from Ireland. Great people in Ireland.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I don't want you sneaking into the US because it's
about the law, it's not about the person. So I
read this story in the New York Times, I was like, yeah,
this is a this is good news. Nearly four hundred
thousand illegal immigrants are due to be shipped back or
to be returned to their home country this year from
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the United States under the Trump administration. Of course, this
is that's the forceful deportation.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
It's going to be more than that when you start
factoring in the self deportation we've already sent there's already
been one point six million illegal immigrants who have left
the country. Well, not only that, but consider this, and
that is that we are also discouraging folks are coming
across the border. So you've got you've stemmed the tide
(34:43):
of folks coming illegally across the border. The border patrol
is able to do its job, right, even painting the
border wall black black paint, because black paint gets hotter, right, right,
because it's absorbs it absorbs the heat, so it's then
harder to climb that border wall. Look, you know how
many illegal immigrants have been allowed into the country in
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the last three months zero, we've been getting rids of
hundreds of thousands, and when you factor in self deportations again,
you're like at half a million just in the last
three months and zero coming in. So that's all that
traffic is going out.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
And of course, the Biden administration was quick to tell
us during you know, their reign over this country that
only if Congress would give them more money could they
actually get control over this broken immigration system. I'm not
kidding around, Jack. We just we gotta have new laws.
And you know, for folks who say it's not compassionate,
how about compassion compassionate to deport folks that are illegally here.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
How about compassion for the people who've had their family
members killed. How about that the family members of the
three people on that highway in Florida who were driving
when the illegal immigrant made that illegal U turn and
killed three people on the highway. How about the compassion
for those people and their family.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
How about compassion for the American worker who deserves fairwea
how about the taxpayers that should not be bled dry
funding benefits for those who broke our laws. And by
the way, I don't care what color the family is
of the people who died on that highway. That doesn't matter.
The fact is they were Americans and they didn't deserve that.
Let's get to a bright spot.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I'm all right getting good grades.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
First, Lady Milania Trump wrote a letter to Russian President
Vladimir Putin last week encouraging him to stop the war
with Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
That letter was a bright spot. Have you read it?
Speaker 4 (36:36):
No?
Speaker 3 (36:37):
I have not.
Speaker 8 (36:37):
Here it is, every child shares the same quiet dreams
in their heart, whether born randomly into a nation's rustic
countryside or a magnificent city center. They dream of love, possibility,
and safety from danger. As parents, it is our duty
to nurture the next generation's hope. As leaders, the responsibility
to sustain our children extends beyond the comfort of a few. Undeniably,
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we must strive to pay at a dignity filled world
for all, so that every soul may wake to peace,
and so that the future itself is perfectly guarded. A
simple yet profound concept, mister Putin, as I'm sure you agree,
is that each generation's descendants begin their lives with a
purity and in a sense which stands above geography, government
and ideology. Yet in today's world, some children are forced
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to carry a quiet laughter, untouched by the darkness around them,
a silent defiance against the forces that can potentially claim
their future. Mister Putin, you can single handedly restore their
melodic laughter. In protecting the innocence of these children, you
will do more than serve Russia alone. You will serve
humanity itself. Such a bold idea transcends all human division.
And you, mister Putin, are fit to implement this vision
(37:44):
with the stroke of the pen today it is time.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Okay, And I think it's I do believe that's what's
in her heart. Absolutely, But make no mistake, this is
part of Trump's negotiation. And you know, I won't say
whole ersion. There's no persuasion of Putin to do what
is right. There's no way Malania sends this without Donald
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Trump saying yeah, go ahead and do that. Yes. But
but I think this was her idea. I think she
wanted to do it, and I think Trump I don't
think it's her idea. I think this is part of
a strategy. I think this is a way for Putin
to somehow, some way be viewed as a hero that
he is at because looking himself has to view that
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he feels.
Speaker 8 (38:31):
Better about her. But there's also depth, there's heart, there's
encouragement in that letter. We have very rarely had a
first lady with that kind of spirit in American history,
and I would put Malania Trump up there with Abigail
Adams as one of the very brightest first ladies in
American history. And you would think the Left would love
to have a first lady they could rally around one
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who speaks five I'm sorry, six languages, is literally a supermodel,
and it's perhaps the only person on the planet who
could have ever had any control over Donald Trump. But no,
the Left hates her because she's married to Donald Trump.
The View read that same letter, and the View called
her a hypocrite because her letter encourages peace. They were saying,
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Donald Trump's immigration's policies are destroying children here in America.
Now never mind that ICE has helped rescue tens of
thousands of children who are being sex trafficked here in
this country. Dude, the Democrats open border policies. Their criticisms
of Malaney aren't based on objective observation or reality. It's
based on hate.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
That's a shame. I think she appealed to the man's ego.
Of course, she offered him respect, even though he may
not deserve it. It was smart, it was strategic, and
it was heartfelt. I think she gave him what he
craved the most, and that is validation.
Speaker 8 (39:46):
And if he thinks of himself as saving children and
bringing up into the war, then this was a bright spot.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
On whoever gets the credit, We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
You are listening to American Ground rad.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen parver Lewis sar
avalon a what went on during the Biden administration becomes
more and more. I don't know if it's sad, tragic, comical, criminal, unconstitutional,
but okay, you know what a comms director does for
a member of Congress or for any elected official.
Speaker 8 (40:30):
Communicate with the press, social media, that type of story.
They they're the prestation.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Basically, you meet with the elected official, you determine, okay,
what is our policy issue or what is our policy
position on this issue, and how we're going to communicate
to that to the people. Well, now it has been
revealed that President Biden's comms director, Ian Sam's the man
supposedly hired to manage scandals and put out fires craft
(40:55):
the narrative. Yes, only spoke with Biden during the administration twice. Yep,
just two times. Not twice a week, No, not twice
a month, No, just twice period, not even twice a year.
I mean, imagine running the communications shop for the president
of the United States, a president obviously mired in investigations
(41:17):
and health questions and public gaffes, and your direct line
to your boss has been used as often, I don't know,
as a payphone in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (41:27):
Almost about half as often as leap years are used. Look,
this is why I said from the beginning, Joe Biden
wasn't in charge.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
It's a hollow president. It was a hollow presidence.
Speaker 8 (41:39):
It was all the the underlings. They just used power.
They usurped the power because Biden created a power vacuum
and all the power that those little minions were grabbing.
No one was there to say whoa.
Speaker 9 (41:52):
When I say whoa, ah, I mean whoa.
Speaker 8 (42:00):
Jimmy Lee, as his family called him, was born in Shreveport, Louisiana.
His father, his grandfather, and his great grandfather had all
been ministers. So it's no wonder that James once said
he learned to pray even before he learned to talk,
But rather than going into seminary himself, James studied psychology
and eventually earned his doctorate of psychology from usc becoming
a professor of pediatrics. But as the counterculture of the
(42:22):
nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies began to take hold, James
felt he had to speak out. He began speaking on
the radio and making videos that were distributed around the country,
and in late nineteen seventies he founded Focus on the Family,
which became immedia empire, promoting Christian values across America. James
Dobson's messages influenced generations of Americans. James Dobson passed away
this week at the age of eighty nine.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
God bless him. May your pursuit of happiness bring you joy.
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