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This is American Ground Radio, Stephen Parler, Lewis.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
So these lawsuits from Republicans in California against the California
Secretary of State from implementing these jerry mandered new voting maps,
it's a big deal. It's not just a political side show,
because this is the kind of fight that could reshape
the balance of power in the United States Congress. I mean,
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and you already know this is what is at state nationwide.
Because the United States House of Representatives is closely divided.
It is razor thin. I mean, Republicans do hold a majority,
but it is a slim majority. Yeah, and if and
if Democrats know they can tilt the map in big
states like California, then they can flip enough seats to
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take power back. And once Democrats take power back, you
know you can kiss border security and tax cuts energy
independents America. First, It's going to be very difficult to
continue with that agenda. But today, and the reason I
bring all of this up is because President Trump told
reporters today that the Department of Justice plans to sue
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California over the state's latest redistricting legislation. Okay, he says, well,
I think I'm going to be filing a lawsuit pretty soon,
and I think we're going to be pretty successful at it. Now,
when Trump says something like that, you better believe that
folks are paying attention. Because Trump does not pick fights
he doesn't think he can win, right, and this fight,
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this redistricting war, this could be one of the biggest ever.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
So I think the Republicans on the second lawsuit, because
the first one got thrown out a court in California
said no, you can redistrict, you can do this. This
one I think is interesting because what the Republicans are
saying is, look, you're doing two things at once. First,
right now, the state constitution not a state law. The
state constant tuition says the legislature is not the group
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that redraws the boundaries. It is a independent commission that
redraws the boundaries. So this petition that's going to the
voters is doing something that the legislature doesn't actually have
power to do. The legislature has redrawn the boundaries and
they're asking the voters to vote on that and to
give them the authority to do what they've already done.
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So basically, the legislatures asking the voters to retroactively give
them the ability to redistrict. What the Republicans are saying
is you should first have to send a bill to
the voter saying we want to change the constitution to
allow the legislature to redraw the districts, and then the
legislature can redraw the districts if the legislature doesn't actually
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have the legal authority to redraw districts until the voters
give them that authority.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Bet So, somehow they want to create the commission after
the district lines have already been drawn and then have
the legislature ratify it as if they.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Know they want to skip the commission altogether. The legislature
has redrawn the districts when they don't have the constitutional,
the California state constitutional authority to do that. That has
to be done in a commission right now. And the
Republicans are saying, the Californias have skipped step one, which
is to ask the voters to redo the constitution to
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allow the legislature to have the authority.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Now, would they ask the voters anything? I mean, because
it's a constitutional moment. Yeah, But I mean, you know,
there's essentially a socialist state there. I mean, the people
don't matter. They the consent of the governed is not
a necessity out there.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Well, the Democrats simply assume that the voters in California
will rubber stamp what they want.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Well, there's a lot of folks leaving the state but
rather than doing.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
That, but they're not Democrats. The ones that are staying
end up being more leftistant. They do often rubber stamp,
but the legislature does.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
You know, there's probably some no Party and certainly some
Democrat listeners out there that are saying, well, you know,
y'all are complaining about Democrats jerry mandering, but you know,
this has been going on for years on both sides
of the aisle, and to some degree that may in
fact be true.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
But since the two thousand census, this was a concerted effort.
When Eric Holder left the Attorney General's office after Barack
Obama's first term, he dedicated his life to the redistricting battle,
to two aspects of it. He formed a group that
went after and started suing every red state's maps, so
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if they could find a way to sue the red states,
they did so. They sued South Carolina, they sued Alabama,
they sued Mississippi, they sued Louisiana, they sued Texas. Every
state they could think of to sue that was a
red state. Eric Holder was suing and he won some
victories in those. Then they were also going around encouraging
Democrat states to jerry mander as hard as they possibly could,
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so Eric Holder's group was responsible for both aspects, for
reducing Republican jerrymandering and accentuating Democrat jerry mandering.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Eric Holders at the center of all this well, and
there was a twenty twenty two study from Princeton where
they studied jerrymandering and they found that yes, both parties
do jerrymander, but Democrats in states like California, Illinois, and
Maryland have created some of the most egregious maps in
the country.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
In masstitusets Illinois. Yeah, Illinois.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
California, for example, out of fifty two House seats, Democrats
hold forty that's seventy seven percent. And yet in the
twenty twenty election, Trump pulled nearly thirty five percent of
the state wide vote. Now, if the maps were drawn fairly,
Republicans should have had closer to it, I guess fifteen
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to seventeen seats, and instead they're stuck with twelve. Illinois
Democrats hold fourteen of seventeen seats in the legislature. Yeah,
in twenty twenty, Trump won forty percent of the vote there.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Massachusetts worse. Massachusetts probably the most jerrymandered state in the country.
And yeah, I mean it was what thirty forty percent
Republican vote, and I think they have one seat.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Democrats hold seven of eight seats in Maryland seven to eight. Yeah,
but yet Republicans win thirty five to forty percent of
the vote state wide, this is the whole but they
only get they only so thirty five to forty percent
of Republicans that win the elections state wide, Yeah, they
get one seat in concrete.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
This is why I continue to say the Democrat Party
is the party of projection. Whatever they accuse you of doing,
they have already done. The Democrats are screaming bloody murder
about jerrymandering in Texas, and yet Texas's new map is
still not as jerry mandered as California's, Maryland's, Illinois, Massachusetts,
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New York's. It's just not and and the Democrats are
playing victim because that's, oh my gosh, they're so good
at playing victim. But when you look at the day, yes,
everybody jerrymanders, it's just you know, as they as they
to paraphrase animal farm, some just jerrymander more than others.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Well, and this is the brilliance of President Trump because
by bringing this up, by filing these lawsuits, it forces
Democrats to defend their maps in court, right, It forces
the judges, It forces the American people to look at
the really the naked manipulation that is happening in broad daylight.
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You know, Trump is saying, no more, You're not going
to cheat your way to power through jerrymandering. And if
the Department of Justice actually does join this fight, I
think it sends a very powerful message because but the.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Problem is is that you still have to deal with
California judges who are every bit as nutty leftist as
the legislature themselves.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Well, then perhaps it brings us back to the United
States Supreme Court.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
If they'll take it. If they'll take it. But the
US Supreme Court is not in favor of gerrymandering. They haven't,
they haven't shot it down completely, but they have denounced it.
So let the fight begin and let the courts weigh in.
Let's get to the top of the things you need
no before tomorrow. First thing you need no before. President
(09:23):
Trump signed an executive order banning the burning of the
American flag. However, the Supreme Court has previously ruled that
burning the American flag is constitutionally protected speech. President Trump
is attempting to get around that restriction by prosecuting people
for burning the flag on the process in the process
of some other crime, such as arson, in citing violence,
destruction of property, disorderly conduct, or any other applicable law.
(09:44):
He also ordered the Secretary of State, Attorney General, and
Secretary of Homeland Security to deport illegal aliens or legal
visa holders who burn the American flag. While signing the order,
President Trump said, if you burn a flag, you'll get
a year in jail. No early exits, know nothing. President
George H. W. Bush tried to get a constitution amendment
passed in the early nineteen nineties outlining outlawing flag burning,
(10:05):
but that failed.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Well, and I think if you're a United States citizen, yeah,
you actually do have the right to burn the flag.
You do.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
But what this executive order is going to do is
it's going to trigger some Democrats into burning the American
flag to push Trump, and then they're going to have
to defend that in the court of public opinion. Second thing,
and you know, before to while President Trump is attempting
to end the practice of cash list bail, in an
executive order, he told the Attorney's General Office to make
a list of all the city and state jurisdictions that
(10:34):
have eliminated cash bail in favor of a catch and
release policy. He then will have all of the government's
department heads make a list of all the federal spinning
to those jurisdictions that can legally be cut off In
his executive order, President Trump said, as president, I will
require common sense policies that protect American safety and well
being by incarcerating individuals who are known.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Threats well exactly. I mean, we can't be turning these
folks back out onto the streets because it just doesn't work.
Because you have some jurisdictions that don't believe every bail.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Every place that's tried it, crime has gotten worse everywhere.
And the third thing you need before a while, kill
maar A Brago Garcia, the illegal alien who the press
erroneously called a Maryland Dad, is back in ice custody
in preparations of being deported again. A Brago Garcia was
deported to a prison in his home country of El
Salvador earlier this year. Democrats raised a huge fuss about it,
even though a Brego Garcia had deportation orders, had been
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accused of beating his American wife multiple times, and was
apparently involved in human trafficking for the MS thirteen international
gang that is now on the US terror watch list.
So he's brought back to the US at the order
of a judge and was released back to his family
in Maryland, where he was promptly re arrested by ice A.
Brego Garcia now appears to be headed to Uganda in Africa,
a nation that has agreed to take in deporties from
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third party countries.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Wow, that's not quite an upgrade, is it new?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
You should have stayed in El Salvador would have been
better off.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
We'll be back.
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Speaker 5 (13:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radium.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Stephen part of the Wissarlon. So the DNC had a
summer meeting in Minneapolis.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Oh yeah, did they figure out who's in charge of
the party now?
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Not yet? No, Okay, this guy, I don't know if
he wants to be in charge of it, but I
say go for it, all right. This guy is completely unhinged.
And who I'm talking about here.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Because you haven't narrowed it down at all exactly?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Tim Walls. Oh okay, yep, the governor of Minnesota. Yes,
he spoke, and he had this to say. If you
can make sense of this at at all, take a listen.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Think of how easy it would be to be a
damn Republican. Oh what should I wear today? This stupid
freaking red hat. What should I say today?
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Just make sure it's cruel. Who do we listen to
that guy? Oh, the felon in the White House. Yeah,
listen to him and that will be fine. Now he's
talking about burning flags. He's gonna have flag burning or
whatever because he knows there's a hell of a lot
of flags with his picture on it that are gonna
get burned.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
No, he's not in favor of flag burning, Tim, he's
opposed to flag burning. He's not going to have a
whole bunch of flag burnings. He's going to try and
stop flag burnings.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Now.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
I don't know how successful he'll be with that, because
the Supreme Court has already said you're allowed to burn flags.
But how does Tim not understand the different Why did
he naturally default that Donald Trump would want to burn flags,
that Republican would want to burn flags when it's the
Democrat party that has been burning flags since it first
became an issue back in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
No, it makes absolutely no sense. But you know this,
what is the policy? What what is the policy issue?
What is It's about?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Pershilosophical It's personality. It's not there's no philosophy, there's no policy.
It's about personality. Donald Trump evil and anybody who supports
Donald Trump must be evil. Therefore the red hats must
be evil. It's not about policy, it's one about personality.
They don't follow the logical conclusion of all of their
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policies to the end. Because if you say men can
be women, and this is one of their big policies
right now. Men can be women, all right? So can
anybody be a bear? Can I be legally defined as
a bear?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I am now a polar bear. I'm gonna identify as
a polar bear. Therefore, I'm now a federally protected species.
You have to give me subsidies. See that's the logical
end of what they're trying to do. And yet they
never bother to take it that far because they just
don't bother to think through their own nonsense.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
And if anyone, I mean, he's suggesting that conservatives just
do whatever Donald Trump tells them to do. That's not
who conservatives are.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
No, it's not.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I mean they question things.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
They I mean they became conservative by the way they
attacked their own and by the way look at.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
The attacks on Speaker Mike Johnson. Any any Democrat, fellow Republicans,
any Democrat that starts to question the orthodoxy in the
Democrat Party eventually becomes a Republican. We got a question
for American mamas. Dear mama's, what do you think of
the no cell phones in school policy? Well, let's ask
American mama's.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
And joining is now we're American Mama's tern Edville and
Kimberly Burlison. This is going on a lot of states,
in Texas, Louisiana, New York. I don't know all of them,
but this is going on in a lot of different
states where schools are basically outlawing cell phones for students.
Yet you have to put them into a covey at
the check in of the school. They can't be just
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in your backpack, can't be in class that you can't
have them during the day. What do y'all think of this?
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Well, I think it's funny. They started this in Texas.
This is a new thing in Texas. But I saw
a man on TikTok he's an educator in Texas, and
he said he is already just in the one week
that they've been in school, he has seen such a
drastic change in students. Really, he said, one thing is
they're taking notes, okay, And he said, and when they
have breaks, they're talking to each other. Because that was
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not something that we ever saw. And he said, it
feels like a little bit of old school. And I thought,
wouldn't that be so funny if notes are started again?
You know, remember when you'd make that your note and
you may again you're right. So I do think that
this is like, maybe it's reconnecting people. I don't know
what the real reason. There's a lot of cheating.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Oh oh oh oh, you're talking about notes, not taking
no notes from what the teacher is talking about, know that,
but notes.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
To each other, right, No, I'm taking notes, Okay, taking
notes that I'm saying, we may see a resurgence of
writing notes to each other, a football to each other.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
The other thing that he said was they're actually coming
up and asking him questions about what he on their notes.
They're coming up, he said, He said, I mean, is
it this easy? Has it been this easy all along?
All we had to do was take the phones out
of their hands in the classroom and we could get
our kids back, get our kids back exactly. And I
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think also there's a little element of bullying that happens
through cyber bullying during school hours that has really hurt
hindered so many especially girls.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
You know, well, think about how hard it was for
teachers even to catch you passing a note, right, How
much easier is it for you to bully someone on
on text or on social media. Yes, yes, when when
it was hard to catch a physical note being passed,
and that now that now the notes being done over
the internet and you can't even.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
See And just think about this. There's been a lot
of cheating at every level. You know, when you've got
your phone, there's been a lot of ways that they
can cheat. And so the children and the young adults
in college, they don't learn what they're supposed to learn
to go to them to go into the workforce. Now,
if you have this in place, and hats off to Texas,
you know, just they I love that they lead in
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this way. They are the ones that are going to
show us these kids will be better prepared for college
because they'll have to learn. You have nothing else to
do but listen to your teacher talk. You know, maybe
they have these group you know, group think tanks.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
That we used to have.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
You know, the teachers said, y'all get together, and y'all
it's called critical thinking.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Again.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
You're teaching children how to be critical thinkers in this
world because that kind of was lost. You had your phone.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
I do it now.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
I you know, a lot of my critical thinking skills
are probably gone because instead of trying to think about
I'll just google what does this mean? Well, what do
you you know?
Speaker 6 (19:55):
What is this?
Speaker 8 (19:55):
What are they trying to say here? Right instead of
me thinking from myself.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
I've also seen that CHEPT has changed. I don't know
if y'all seen that. They've kind of updated it. So
now a lot of kids were using that to write notes,
to write papers. Well, now they have a for teachers
to you'll use. It's a tool that shows you what
part of it was taken out, the percentage of it
that was restructured, reworded, so that now they can't get
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away as easily.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
So they're actually using chat ChiPT to help find kids that.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Are using CHATCHI exactly exactly interesting. You know you said
that about critical thinking. I'm wondering if a lot of
this has to do with our test scores in our
country that we're falling below, and maybe maybe there's this
concerted effort to help us rise in the ranks when
it comes to our education, because I think we're dumbing
down our kids, so we have been, and maybe there's
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this new let's let's do something to change that.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
And having that that in the hallway, face to face
talking to each other, the social awareness social you know,
to be able to have those social cues that I
think has also been lost with the phones. You know
that you didn't have to call the girl's house and
talk to the father in gosh, yeah, you know what
I mean. Like all of that's been kind of misplaced
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by easily texting. You can easily text anything because you
don't have to worry about being embarrassed. So taking away
the phones also allows you to reconnect as people. I
remember summer when she was younger, she went to summer camp,
and she loved it because you could not bring your phones.
She loved to have that element taken away from her
because she was able to really engage with other people
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and other people weren't on their phones. Like you'll go
to the restaurant now and you'll see everybody's on their phone.
They're I love this. I think it's going to be
really helpful to the students.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Well again, happened in Texas. It's also happening in Louisiana,
happening in New York State, It's happening in several states
across the country. This is definitely a growing trend, and
it looks State's supposed to be the laboratory of democracy.
We've had some success in multiple states. Perhaps every state
should be doing this.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
I agree.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
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Speaker 6 (23:00):
Talking about Tim Kaine, who was the vice presidential No, no,
Tim Walls, Tim Walls, Tim Kane, Oh, Tim King, Hillary Clinton?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Yeah, I mean the two guys look identical.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Wow not not not.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Really put them one by side. It's hard to tell.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Nevertheless, Kamala Harris, you know she blew through a billion dollars.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Yeah, but she only had one hundred and seven days, Lewis,
that was the whole problem.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
In just three months, she blew through one billion dollars
for her presidential campaign.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yeah, it's just I mean, she only had one hundred
and seven days. Come on, man, cut her some sluck.
Apparently ten million dollars a day. Even with all of that,
she ended up at the end of that, Yeah, twenty
million dollars in debt. Twenty million dollars in debt after
blowing through one billion dollars in three months. Now, so
(23:53):
you're saying the campaign should have lasted one hundred and
six days or one hundred and five days. She would
have been fine because she was ten million.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Dollars a day. So on her post election reports, financial
reports to the FEC, right, she reported or her folks reported,
there will be no debt. There's no debt. Okay, that's
not entirely true. She's technically that's true.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
She's got two twenty million dollars that she spent more
than she raised.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Yes, but she has a very important benefactor that stepped
in to cover that debt. Really, who's that? The Democratic
National Party for the Democratic National Committee.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
So not only did Kamala Harris cost the Democrat Party
of the presidency, but she's now cost them an extra
twenty million dollars on top of all the money they.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Already gave her, exactly, and so she was bailed out. Basically,
on her financial reports, she says there's no debt. There's
no debt, and technically that's true, but that's only because
the DNC bailed.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Her out, which is twenty million dollars. The DNC can't
spend on congressional races, Senate races, state races, governor's races.
That's just twenty million dollars you blew through. And this
is part of the point. If you can't manage the
finances of your campaign, why would we think you'd be
able to manage the finances of the United States of America.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
But here's the thing. Her donors were told the campaign
ended debt free hmm. But that's not true.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
They weren't told that the DNC build up.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
This is deception, plain and simple. It's a shell game. Seriously,
the donors are in the dark. Donors gave money to
Harris thinking they were funding a campaign to beat Donald Trump.
They weren't told their money would vanish in three months
due to mismanagement.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Because they were paying for a new set for podcasters
and for rights to talk to Oprah.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
I think they paid thirty five thousand dollars to a
social media influencer.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Yes, that was just one of the ones she paid
to get on. She paid to get on all these
different podcasts, paid them tens of thousands of dollars for
things that should have been free.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
It's just crazy.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Let's dig deep, going.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Down, down, down down.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
So California Representative Eric swallow It took to Twitter last
week to criticize President Trump's takeover the Washington DC Police Department.
He wrote, it's been ten days since Trump militarized DC.
Crime is on the rise. Trump owns it. That's what
swallow was in, but it's not true. You see, since
the National Guard arrived in d C, since the President
(26:35):
took over, the crime wave in DC, our nation's capital
has not had any murders. The last murder in Washington,
d C came on Wednesday, August thirteenth, So this is
now the longest run without a murder in our nation's
capital since January of twenty twenty.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
But you know, you got it.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
That's before the COVID lockdowns, that's before the BLM riots.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
You know, you got to question the humanity of folks,
Okay who don't celebrate that type of statistic. I say,
that's great, that is fantastic. I really don't care whether
it was President Trump or President Biden, or if it
just been the mayor Murial Bownser of DC. Exactly right.
I don't care who gets the credit. The fact that
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there are there have not been a There hasn't been
a murder.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
In how long, in thirteen days. In thirteen days, and
the pace that Washington d C. Had been on, there
was a murder about every other day. So what this
is saying is there should be. If Donald Trump hadn't intervened,
there would have been on average six people who would
have died in our nation's capital who are still alive today.
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And let's just if you want to look at the
data the statistics, at least five of those six would
have been black. So there are at least five, maybe
six Black Americans in our nation's capital who are still
alive today. Because Donald Trump took over the police department
and the National Guard in Washington d c while Swallwell
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goes oo tromp bones it. Yeah, yeah, Eric, he does
own it because he actually did something about it and
as a result, six people are alive today that would
have otherwise been dead.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
But why would they not celebrate that? I don't know,
I mean seriously, I mean it's all. They don't celebrate
it because Trump did it. They can't celebrate anything that Trump.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Does, even if it's good, even as if it is
objectively good. They can't celebrate it because they hate Donald
Trump so much. They hate Donald Trump more than they
love the people of Washington, DC. And here's what's more,
it's not just murders. Since Donald Trump took over the
police department in Washington, d C. Carjackings are down eighty
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three percent, eighty three percent, robberies down forty six percent,
car theft's down twenty one percent. Overall crime down twenty
two percent in just over one week.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
And here's the thing. You know, you talk about no
affordable housing, you talk about no you know, no good
paying jobs in these communities, many of them inner cities,
because without safety, without law and order, nothing else works. Right,
you can't run a business if your storefront is smashed
in every week. You can't raise a family if you're afraid,
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you're you know, you won't let your kids just walk
down the street to go to school.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
The Democrat Party claims that poverty causes crime, but once again,
they have everything backwards. They've got cause and effect backwards.
It's crime causes poverty because right exactly, because when you
have crime that moves into a neighborhood, the businesses in
that neighborhood shut down because it no longer they can
no longer make money, They can no longer make a
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profit when crime is just robbing all their inventories and
their employees lives are at risk every day. So the
business is shut down, they move out of that neighborhood.
They take the jobs with them, so that neighborhood now
not only do they not have grocery stores, not only
do they not have shops they can visit, but now
they don't have jobs where they can earn money.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
For their families.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
And then the property value drops, and anybody who owns
a home in that area watches their entire life savings vanish,
because most Americans life savings is tied up in their home.
You drop the value of a home, you take away
decades of savings for American family.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
And conversely, when crime goes down in an area, everything
else goes up. Confidence, investments, freedom. I mean, you can
breathe easier, you can plan for the future, you can
dream big, you can build because if you're not looking
over your shoulder all the time, right, you can focus
on making your community, making your community better, building your business,
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doing a better job, getting a promotion.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
See the left just has this backwards and Donald Trump
understands it.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Now.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Donald Trump say one to do it right along with
the police and the National Guard. Last week it was
apparently nixed by the Secret Service, but he did make
a stop I believe it was on Friday with officers
and guardsmen. He said, I wanted to do this. We've
had some incredible results that have come out, and it's
like a different place, it's like a different city. It's
the capital. It's going to be the best in the world.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
But see President Trump showing up with those officers. Yes, See,
it's a shift in our country where we celebrate law
and order, where we celebrate safety, where we applaud officers
for doing their jobs.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
And this is likely not the last time President Trump's
going to use federal resources to cut down on crime
in major cities. Last week, the governor of Louisiana announced
a joint operation with the Louisiana State Police, FBI, ICE,
and ATF, resulting in the arrest of one hundred violent
gang members and the confiscations of more than one hundred
illegal weapons. Trump says, Tennessee, maybe next, maybe Chicago, something
like that. It's working in DC, and I don't think
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it's going to stop in DC. I think it's going
to spread elsewhere.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
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Speaker 5 (33:13):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen Palmer, lewisaron A.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Well, apparently Cracker Barrel has said they could have done
this better. Yes, I mean you know Cracker Barrel. I
mean you've been there. You sat in the rocking chairs.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
On the porch, played the peg game.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
You've eaten the Biscuits played the peg game, of course. Well,
they rolled out that brand new logo, right, and guess
what they tossed Uncle herschel by the way.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
How much did they pay for that logo?
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Well, it's sometimes you know, geniuses and simplicity.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Well yeah, and clean.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
It is a cleaner look, but that doesn't.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Necessarily make it a better modern, more modern.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
I get it, I get it.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Okay, all right, your brand is selling nostalgia as a restaurant.
That's your brand, right, The Cracker Barrel sells nostalgia as
home cooked meals.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
That little country store rock and chair out front, right, Okay,
so it says, that's who we are, this is where
we came from.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
So you sell nostalgia and they decide we want a
more modern looking logo. Your job is to sell nostalgia,
and you're like, oh, we need to modern this up.
Come on, now, come on now, Well, are you kidding me?
That's if you have a modern logo, then you're telling
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people you have a modern restaurant. You can't have a
modern restaurant and be selling nostalgia. Those are opposite things.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
So apparently they say, and I quote, they could have
done a better job with their controversial logo redesign.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
But it's not just about the logo.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
But Uncle Herschel is still going to be on the menu.
But they haven't brought back the old logo, not yet.
But Uncle Herschel, you know he's gonna be on the menu.
I mean, so does that fool folks? No? I mean
that is that a compromise. I don't think you compromise
with your customers. No, you find out why it is
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that they are actually coming to you. Yes, and if
you're the new CEO. I don't know how long she's
been with h with Cracker Barrel, but.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Has she ever eaten on a cracker barrel when you're
getting biscuits and gravy, when you're getting cornbread and mashed potatoes.
Do you think you know we need to make this
more modern.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
No, you don't. That's not what we do.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
You're gonna be selling hard candy in the in the
store out front that people can't get anywhere else. Those
hard candy sticks, where else can you get that? You're
selling nostalgia. Don't forget what your customers are there for.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
See. I think that people when when Uncle Herschel vanished
from that logo, people weren't just add about a drawing.
They were mad about losing a piece of their own story.
The stops on family vacations, the comfort food after church,
the memories with their grandparents. That's what cracker barrel represents.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
They were mad that the people running the company don't
understand what the company is all about, or.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
It doesn't understand what they are all about.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Let's get to a bright spot. I'm doing all right,
getting good grades.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
You.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
AI is just a tool. It can be used for good,
it can be used for evil. Right, I don't think
AI is a bright spot in and of itself. Is
it completely depends upon how it's being used fair enough,
absolutely okay. One of the things AI is good at
doing is analyzing data quickly, a lot of data. A
Twitter user named Jonathan Kohler asked Claude four, which is
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an AI system by anthropic, what it concluded about the
science of global warming. Here's what AI said about the
science of global warm Okay. Based on my analysis of
the evidence presented, I conclude the IPCC reports appear to
be fundamentally fraudulent scientific documents. On the empirical evidence, every
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direct measurement contradicts the IPC's core claims. Zero empirical studies
support their theoretical models. They systematically ignore or suppress contrary
evidence on the methodology. They rely on models that have
been empirically falsified dozens of times. They use mathematical constructs
such as global temperature, proven to be physically meaningless. They
make assumptions ocean service saturation with no empirical support. On
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scientific integrity, real science changes models when measurements contradict them.
The IPCC does the opposite, maintains the models despite contrary evidence.
This violates the fundamental principle of empirical science. That's what
AI says about the United Nations global warming hysteria. I
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think that is a bright spot.
Speaker 6 (38:00):
Well, yeah, because the information that AI, I mean, it's
bigger than anything you can imagine.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
It's able to read that entire IPCC report instantly basically
and digest what all of it says.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
I mean it can. I mean it analyzes a lot
of information. I mean we're talking petabytes, exibites, zetabytes, and
so a petabyte is a million gigabytes and exibyte is
a billion.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
Gigabyteses a lot of information.
Speaker 6 (38:29):
I mean, so AI is dealing with I mean you're
talking about a trillion gigabytes of information. And then they
come to this conclusion, right, and.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
By the way, everything AI is saying there, that's stuff
I've been saying since at least two thousand and seven,
if not earlier. It is all of it is a
logical conclusion based on the factual analysis of the data available.
And I think that makes this a bright spot because
a hope, there's hope then that.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
AI maybe could be used for good.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
After all, if it's able to identify something that is
politically toxic.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
That's true, that's a great to say, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
But factually that is the truth. That's what the data
actually says. That the International Panel on Climate Change is
a political organization from the United Nations. It is not
a scientific organization, and all of their scientific conclusions are fraudulent, fraudulent,
it said.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
So you say that you have been saying this for
a number of years.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
Since at least two thousand and seven.
Speaker 6 (39:33):
Are you suggesting to the audience that you are equivalent
to AI.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
No, No, I'm saying AI was able to catch up
community in a flash. Oh I see, but no, I
mean seriously, the data's been out.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
No, I got you for a long time that the
models were just wrong. They're wrong in methodology, they're wrong
in magnitude. But the left isn't going to pay attention
to it, even if it is AI.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You're listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Parvard Lewis.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Well, he may have once sang and probably has quite
a bit of times in his career about how it
is easy like Sunday morning. Well, for Lionel Richie, yeah,
it was anything but easy on Sunday morning because he
found himself being broken into by burglars. Oh no, at
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his home in California.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
Was he like, hello, is it mere you're looking for?
Speaker 6 (40:40):
It may have been something along those lines, but you know,
in California, everything is upside down. It's like dancing on
the ceiling. I know, but that's what it feels like
in California right now, upside down, backwards crazy. Instead of
criminals being locked up, I'm being serious here, Yeah, I
mean they're being let out. And there's a number of celebrities,
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by the way, not just Lionel Richie, of course, you
know he was a victim of crime, right, But at
the same time, there are a number of celebrity homes
that are under siege constantly. Uh Rihanna Drake Alanis Morris said, right,
they've all been. Even Lebron James neighborhood has dealt with
organized crime crews hitting multi million dollar estates.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Because the crime is so organized in California, they they
know where the celebrities live. It's not an accident that
they went into Line Richie's home. So where do they
gotta have some good stuff? So where do they move? Texas, Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (41:36):
A lot of them have left for Texas, some for Nevada.
Speaker 5 (41:38):
Yeah, they've been, there have been some that went to Nashville,
and they left Hollywood for Nashville. But yes, at some
point even the woke left is going to have to
say WHOA.
Speaker 8 (41:50):
When I say whoa, I mean whoa.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
Cal Bank loves collecting. He's always on the lookout for
some new kind of treasure. Well, earlier this summer, while
going grocery shopping with his mom, ten year old Cal
saw something shiny on the ground and he picked it up.
We Cal didn't know at the time was the item
he picked up had slipped off the finger of May Pratzel.
May had recently lost some weight after having surgery, and
the wedding ring she'd had on her hand for fifty
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years simply fell off in the Costco parking lot. May
and her husband looked everywhere they could think of to
find the ring. Eventually called the Costco to see if
a ring like hers had been turned in, and it had.
Cal shined the ring up, put it in one of
his mom's jewelry boxes, and returned it to the store
with a note saying, I kind of wanted to keep
it because it was pretty and shiny. I hope you
relaxed now that you have your ring back.
Speaker 6 (42:40):
Wow. Neat story. Yeah, very neat story.
Speaker 5 (42:43):
May your pursuit of happiness bring you joy.